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SSB Company quarantined after 8 men test positive for Covid-19

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Baramulla: An entire company of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) has been quarantined, after eight of its personnel tested positive for novel coronavirus in Mirgund area of north Kashmir Baramulla district, reports said Thursday.
They said that after some of the troopers of 18 battalion of SSB complained of minor fever and cough, samples of 08 were taken and tests of all the eight personnel, including the Koot in-charge, returned positive for Covid-19.
According to the officials, once the results were received as positive, the whole company was quarantined, while the infected personnel were kept in isolation.
Meanwhile, a medical team was deputed to the SSB Company, to assist the authorities there to contain the spread of the deadly virus. (CNS)


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