Bengaluru top cop goes into quarantine

Team Udayavani, Jul 17, 2020, 2:31 PM IST

Bengaluru: The Bengaluru City Police commissioner Bhaskar Rao has gone into self-quarantine on Friday, June 17 for four days after his car driver tested positive for COVID -19.

As there is an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the city, Bhaskar Rao has been working day and night and his driver has been tested positive for COVID-19.

Rao took to Twitter and wrote, “My driver is tested Corona positive, I have home quarantined myself for four days and will get myself tested again on Monday for the (5) fifth time for 3 months,” Rao tweeted.

He also said that he had to be in “numerous inadvertent interactions with positive cases”.

“Seek your good wishes, I am not yet positive,” he added.

My driver is tested Corona positive, I have home quarantined myself for 4 days and will get myself tested again on Monday for the (5) fifth time since 3 months. I had to be in numerous inadvertent interactions with positive cases. Seek your good wishes, am not yet positive !!

— Bhaskar Rao IPS (@deepolice12) July 17, 2020

According to a senior police officer, over 400 policemen including a few IPS officers have tested positive for coronavirus, five of whom lost their lives, about 200 recovered from the disease and about 20 police stations were sealed due to coronavirus infection among policemen