Senior officer of CBI's Kolkata unit tests positive for COVID-19
Jun 9, 2020, 18:40 IST
New Delhi, Jun 9 () A senior officer of the CBI in the Kolkata unit tested positive for COVID-19, officials said Tuesday.
The officer, who is in a supervisory role looking after anti-corruption cases of the CBI's Kolkata unit has become first such case among senior officers of the probe agency, they said.
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Sources in the agency said all possible medical help has been extended to the family.
India has become fifth worst-hit nation by the COVID-19 pandemic after the US, Brazil, Russia and the UK, according to the Johns Hopkins University data.
The country has registered over 9,000 corona virus infection cases for the sixth day in a row taking the country tally to 2,66,598, according to Health Ministry data on Tuesday morning. ABS AAR AAR(This story has not been edited by www.businessinsider.in and is auto–generated from a syndicated feed we subscribe to.)