Maha: 90, including 72 SRPF men, test positive in Aurangabad

Aurangabad, May 8 () The number of COVID-19 casesin Aurangabad in Maharashtra rose by 90 on Friday, with 72 ofthem being State Reserve Police Force jawans who served inNashik district's Malegaon area, a hotspot some 195 kilometresfrom here, health officials said.

With this addition, the number of coronavirus positivecases in Aurangabad has now reached 477, an official said.

"The swabs of 93 SRPF personnel who served in Nashik'sMalegaon area, and had come back here on May 7, were testedand reports of 72 returned positive today. Five of them weresymptomatic and were shifted to a private hospital here,"Deputy Commandant Shaikh Illyas told .

"The rest 67 are undergoing treatment in a temporaryfacility set up in an educational institute near the force'scentre in Satara area here," he added.

He said total number of SRPF personnel in Aurangabadunit is over one thousand, including two teams that arecurrently serving in the state's Vidarbha region. AWBNM BNM