New Delhi/Kolkata: A senior officer of the Central Bureau of Investigation (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 coronavirus cases for the sixth day in a row taking the country tally to 2,66,598, according to Health Ministry data on Tuesday morning.
(PTI report)
