BENGALURU : Twenty-seven police personnel, including at least 13 of a station, have tested positive for coronavirus in a city division in the last ten days and five of them discharged after treatment, a senior officer said on Tuesday.
All these cases were reported from Whitefield Police Division and 15 of them, including 12 from the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) police station, tested positive on Monday, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Whitefield) M N Anucheth said.
He termed as 'incorrect' media reports that the personnel of the HAL station contracted the virus from an accused whom they had arrested. "In the Whitefield division, yesterday (Monday) we have had 15 COVID positive cases amongst police staff.