NEW DELHI: The home ministry on Saturday directed all states and Union territories to provide police protection to doctors and medical staff in hospitals and other places where patients diagnosed as COVID-19 positive are being treated as well as where suspected cases are quarantined.The advisory comes on a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi , while interacting with chief ministers via video conference, condemned and expressed distress at instances of attacks against and harassment of doctors, nurses and paramedics engaged in treating COVID-19 positive cases and suspected carriers.It has also been communicated to provide necessary police security to doctors and medical staff who visit places to conduct screening of people to find out symptoms of the disease, the home ministry said in a release.