9 RPF personnel test positive for COVID-19 in West Bengal

Nine Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel, who had recently gone to Delhi for some urgent official work, have tested positive for COVID-19, an official from South Eastern Railway (SER) said on Friday. personnel were part of a 28-member RPF contingent from Kharagpur division of SER, which had returned on April 14 from national capital with a consignment of arms and ammunition aboard a parcel express train, he said.

After one constable developed coronavirus-like symptoms, his swab was tested at a government facility in West Bengal on Thursday. He was admitted to a designated private COVID-19 hospital at Uluberia after his report came positive, SER spokesman Sanjay Ghosh said.

reports of eight ors also came positive, he said. Apart from nine RPF personnel, a few tested negative while test reports of remaining personnel were awaited, spokesperson said. Ghosh said all 28 RPF constables had been on mandatory quarantine since ir return from Delhi.