The Villupuram district police have alerted their counterparts in
Puducherry and launched a manhunt, after test results of a man who was
quarantined in a private institution and released on Tuesday night came
back positive. The man is absconding and police teams have launched a
search for him.
Highly placed sources, on conditions of anonymity, said that the Health Department in Villupuram had released 25 persons, quarantined in the institution, on Tuesday night, after their test results came back negative. All the 25, excluding the man, were immediate relatives of returnees from the conference in Delhi.
A top police official said that the authorities seemed to have bungled up test reports, since the results of four of them had come back positive. The police immediately swung into action and traced three of them — all relatives of people who had returned from Delhi. They have been taken to isolation wards in Villupuram, while whereabouts of the man hailing from Delhi is not yet known.
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Highly placed sources, on conditions of anonymity, said that the Health Department in Villupuram had released 25 persons, quarantined in the institution, on Tuesday night, after their test results came back negative. All the 25, excluding the man, were immediate relatives of returnees from the conference in Delhi.
A top police official said that the authorities seemed to have bungled up test reports, since the results of four of them had come back positive. The police immediately swung into action and traced three of them — all relatives of people who had returned from Delhi. They have been taken to isolation wards in Villupuram, while whereabouts of the man hailing from Delhi is not yet known.
“We could have traced him if the authorities had at least alerted them
about his test status on Tuesday night. Health authorities alerted the
police only on Wednesday noon, and a manhunt has been launched to trace
him,” the official said.
VILLUPURAM,
April 08, 2020 18:27 IST
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