A team of health workers and police was attacked in Moradabad on Wednesday when they went to escort a suspected coronavirus patient and his family.

The incident in which police and health workers were injured took place in Nawabpura area of Moradabad. The ambulance and four other vehicles were also damaged in the stone-pelting.

According to reports, a man named Sartaj had been unwell and was admitted to the medical college in the Tirthankar Mahavir University.

His samples were sent for testing on April 9 and the report that came on April 13 found him to be coronavirus positive. Sartaj died the same night.

These visuals are from UP’s Moradabad where team of medical staff and cops who had gone to a locality under the Nawab Pura police station to take a #Covid_19 suspect to hospital were attacked and stones pelted on them .One hopes strict action will be taken against all involved ! pic.twitter.com/n4ueBN42K1 — Alok Pandey (@alok_pandey) April 15, 2020

Some members of his family were quarantined at the IFTM University.

The health and police team, on Wednesday, went to their house to pick up Sartaj's younger brother who had been suffering from fever.

As soon as the police and medical team reached Moradabad, people started coming out of their houses and tried to prevent the family members from being taken for quarantine.

The health team tried to explain to the crowd but the people became aggressive and started pelting stones.

Taking strong cognizance of the incident, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that NSA would be slapped against those responsible for the act.

ADG (Law and order) P.V. Ramasastry said in Lucknow that the situation was under control and efforts were on to identify the miscreants. "We will take very strict action against those involved in this incident," he said.

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