Amid the rising cases of coronavirus COVID-19 in Delhi, 26 police personnel, including a Station House Officer, of Chandni Mahal police station were put in quarantine on Friday (April 17). Delhi Police said that these personnel had come in contact with 2 police constables, who had earlier tested positive for the deadly virus.
It is to be noted that 52 people belonging to Tablighi Jamaat had tested positive from Chandni Mahal area and it is likely that the two cops who had tested positive for coronavirus had come in contact with these jamaatis.
Chandni Mahal, which is located in central Delhi, had reported three deaths due to the coronavirus last week. The 52 Jamaatis who had tested positive were from the group of 102 people who who were evacuated from different mosques in the area.
Chandni Mahal was declared a containment zone by Delhi government on April 10 and the whole area was sanitized to curb the spread of coronavirus in the area.
Meanwhile, the Delhi government on Friday (April 17) prohibited all private schools in the national capital from hiking their fees and charging transportation fees from the students amid the coronavirus lockdown period. The government also directed schools to charge fees only on a monthly basis and not quarterly.
Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia made the announcements at a press conference today, stating that the government has received multiple complaints from parents about schools revising fee structure and also levying changes like transport fee without taking prior approval from the government. He clarified that schools cannot levy charges like transport fee, annual fee or another miscellaneous fee during the lockdown period, which will continue till May 3.
