After CISF and BSF, the CRPF has now been hit by COVID-19 bug as a Chief Medical Officer (CMO) has tested positive for Coronavirus.
Following the development, eight others who were staying at a Transit Officers Mess in Pushp Vihar here where the CMO was infected were quarantined at a CRPF quarantine facility at Narela in the national capital.
A Liaison Officer of Senior Security Advisor K Vijay Kumar has also been quarantined and the Mess has been closed.
“It is intimated that Dr Deepak, CMO of CH (Composite Hospital), New Delhi (presently attached with of ADG, Medical, CAPF, residing at Room No 103 (of) Transit Officers Mess, Saket, New Delhi complained of breathing problems, dry cough, continued fever etc and same was telephonically informed to Dr Manish, SMO of Dett (Detachment) Hospital, Northern Sector Staff Camp on 30.03.2020. Accordingly, Dr Manish, SMO has arranged Dr Deepak’s corona investigation at nearby Lal Path Lab on 31.03.2020. Dr Deepak, CMO has undergone corona investigation on the same day and his report received today i.e. 02.04.2020 stated him to be Covid-19 positive,” reads an internal CRPF circular.
The circular further said, “Accordingly, Dr Deepak, CMO, is shifted in isolation ward at AIIMS, Jhajjar, Haryana. More details follow.”
The circular also directed that Transit Officers Mess, Saket be sanitised, working staff and gusts/officers living there be put on quarantine immediately. Confirmation in this regard be communicated to all concerned immediately.
Others at the Mess have been identified as Assistant Commandant P Raja (Group Centre, Hyderabad) who was Liaison Officer of Senior Security Advisor of MHA, Smt Tejaswita, Assistant Commandant, 84 Battalion, Vinod Pathak, Deputy Commandant, RAF and PM Raju, Assistant Commandant, Training.
Constable Amit Kumar, Constable (Cook) Dhooraram Sai and Rajkumar Paswan have also been identified as living in the Mess.