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The 57-year-old ASI attached to Whitefield police station had collapsed in his house on Saturday night and his family members rushed him to the hospital where doctors declared him brought dead.
The doctors had taken his swab samples from the body and the results came positive on Sunday. This is the fifth city policeman to die of COVID.
Meanwhile, the DCP West office was sealed for the next three days after a constable tested positive on Sunday. Police said that the officials are home quarantined.