Residents of Padarayanapura protest against BBMP, ASHA workers
Team Udayavani, Apr 20, 2020, 7:22 AM IST
Bengaluru: Tension prevailed at Padarayanapura in the city late Sunday as some secondary contacts of COVID-19 patients along with a few locals tried to remove barricades and argued with officials who had come to shift them to a quarantine facility.
Padarayanapura has been sealed off to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Police said the incident happened when officials along with medical staff were trying to shift the secondary contacts to the place identified for quarantine purpose.
After positive cases were reported from the area, several primary contacts have been sent to quarantine and now it was the turn of secondary ones, they said.
“Officials have made a list of 58 people who are secondary contacts to be sent to quarantine… The first 15 people came with officials for quarantining and were sent in a bus. When the next group was called, they started opposing it and wanted the tests to be conducted on the spot,” DCP (West) B Ramesh said.
More people gathered there and started shouting slogans such as “We want justice”, he said. They tried to remove barricades erected near entry and exit point to the locality and indulged in argument with officials, the DCP said.
A case will be registered and action will be take against those involved, the DCP said.
He also ruled out any attack on officials or medical staff.
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