They have now been shifted the Sanjay Gandhi Hospital in Rewa. (File photo: Reuters)

Two people who were booked under the National Security Act (NSA) in Madhya Pradesh's Indore and shifted to the Satna jail tested positive for Covid 19 on Sunday.

The duo was involved in stone pelting at a police team in Chandan Nagar in Indore on April 7, after which Indore DM had booked them under the NSA.

Jail authorities maintained that there is no threat to other detenues in the jail as the ones who tested positive for Covid-19 were in isolation barracks at the jail.

On Saturday, another NSA detainee transferred to the Jabalpur jail tested positive for Covid-19.

DM Satna, Ajay Katesaria told the media that two NSA detainees sent from Indore had symptoms of Covid-19 after which they were tested and found positive on Sunday.

They have now been shifted the Sanjay Gandhi Hospital in Rewa. "There is no cause for panic as the detainees never came in contact with the local people in Satna," he said. Satna did not have a single case of coronavirus till now.

DG, Prisons, Sanjay Chaudhry told India Today that after the coronavirus outbreak in the state, all new arrivals in jails are being kept in isolation barracks for 14 days before being shifted to regular barracks. He said that new arrivals in jails are being tested for Covid-19 as well.

Meanwhile, former leader of opposition, Ajay Singh has blamed the state government for 'importing' Covid-19 to the Vindhya region in the state.

"The Vindhya region did not have a single case of Covid-19. Is the CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan trying to control corona or spread it? People are angry and before something happens, the Covid-19 positive brought from outside should be shifted outside the Vindhya region," he said in a tweet.