Lucknow, 15 April. A team of district officials who had come to take people, who are believed to have come in contact with a coronavirus patient who died recently to institutional quarantine came under attack in Uttar Pradesh’s Morarabad district on Wednesday, officials said.
The patient, who was from Nawabpur’s Masjid Haji Neb, died on Monday night, prompting authorities to dispatch a health team to quarantine people. His family meanwhile had already been quarantined.
A mob accused the health team of quarantining people without adequate arrangement for food and pelted them with stones, officials said.
A doctor and three policemen accompanying the team were injured, officials said. An ambulance and two police vehicles were also damaged.
Moradabad District Magistrate Rakesh Kumar Singh and Superintendent of Police Amit Pathak went to the spot to disperse the crowd.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath has asked law enforcement authorities to invoke the draconian National Security Act on those who attacked the health team.
The district administration has also been ordered to recover the cost of damaged property from those responsible for the attack, officials said.
Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh reported 70 more cases on Wednesday, taking the state tally to 727, the state’s Principal Health Secretary Amit Mohan Prasad. Three more deaths took the death tally to 11.
With 70 fresh cases reported during the last 24 hours, the total number of positive cases has reached 727.
