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Covid-19: Doctors gone to collect samples attacked in Indore

INDORE: Police and health officials were attacked in Indore on Wednesday when they went to screen residents of a locality tagged as one of the Covid-19 hotspots of the city. Heavy brickbatting from rooftops forced the team to retreat.No one was injured but doctors and other medical staff were shaken by the violence. "We had gone there yesterday also. Everything was okay. Today, the stone-pelting started all of a sudden," a doctor told mediapersons.As many as 54 families in Taat Patti Bakhal are in isolation and health teams have to routinely check on them after two Covid-19 cases were detected. Two doctors and a health worker were sent to the area, escorted by police and a tehsildar. They reached there around 02.30pm." We were given a list of contacts of Covid-19 patients and were screening them when suddenly some of them started pelting us with stones," said one doctor. "We ran to save our lives," she added. A civic body team engaged in cleaning drainage lines in the area also had to flee.DIG Harinarayanachari Mishra told TOI that police have asked the team members to help identify the stone-pelters. "A case under IPC Section 353 will be registered against them," he said .Nineteen more patients tested positive in Indore on Wednesday, taking its tally to 63 - more than half of them in the last two days. The city also got its first child coronavirus patients, three children aged 5 to 8 years, and the first police officer to test positive. Indore now accounts for 73% of all the cases in MP. This is the second time this week that health workers have been attacked in Indore.