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Inspector Devendra Chandravanshi, 43, tested positive for the coronavirus about 15 days ago.
Indore:
A police officer in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, died after being infected with the new coronavirus, authorities said.
Inspector Devendra Chandravanshi, 43, tested positive for the coronavirus about 15 days ago. He was admitted to SAIMS Hospital and died of a heart attack today.
Indore Deputy Police Inspector General HN Chari Mishra said the police officer died around 3:30 am earlier today.
As the contact history or source of infection has not been traced so far, police department sources said the official, who was sent to Juni Indore, likely contracted the disease when he was deployed at the scene of the law protests. of citizenship in the Barwali Chowki area. from Indore last month. Anti-CAA protesters had camped there for about 70 days.
This is the first victim of the deadly virus from the police department in Madhya Pradesh.
In Punjab’s Ludjaya, a senior police official, who had tested positive for the new coronavirus, died Saturday in a hospital of multiple organ failure. Assistant Commissioner of Police Anil Kumar Kohli, 52, was scheduled for plasma surgery, but died before he could undergo surgery.
In Maharashtra, at least 37 police officers, including eight officers, across Maharashtra have tested positive for coronavirus since the outbreak.
