Two more personnel of the Delhi police on Friday tested positive for novel coronavirus. Police said that the Covid positive personnel were from the team of crime branch probing Tablighi Jamaat case.
Police said that they have been sent to quarantine centres. Earlier, a Delhi Police constable of the Crime Branch who visited the Nizamuddin headquarters of the Tablighi Jamaat in south Delhi tested positive for coronavirus.
The constable had visited the Markaz building in connection with the probe into the religious congregation held there last month where many people were reported to have contracted the virus.
On March 31, Delhi Police's Crime Branch lodged an FIR against seven people, including Tablighi Jamaat leader Maulana Saad Kandhalvi, on a complaint by Station House Officer, Nizamuddin, for holding a religious congregation here allegedly in violation of the lockdown orders and not maintaining social distancing to contain the spread of coronavirus.
Earlier on Thursday, two police personnel from Khajoori Khas police station in North-east Delhi were tested positive for Covid-19.
A letter from Muktesh Chander, Special Commissioner of Police, Operations stated that it has been reported that two police personnel from Khajoori Khas have tested positive for Covid-19. They were residing at Barrack Number 5 of PS Khajoori Khas.
"In the same barrack, the staff of Commissioner of Police reserve was also residing. It is important that they are also tested for Covid-19 and are quarantined immediately. Similar precaution need to be taken for all CP reserve staff at other locations too," the letter further stated.
More than 21 Delhi Police personnel have tested positive for the novel coronavirus