With an increasing number of frontline workers testing positive for Covid-19, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath on Tuesday instructed officials to protect the state's armed police from the infection.
Adityanath stressed that the police, provincial armed constabulary (PAC), fire services and government railway police (GRP) personnel needed to be protected from coronavirus and also sought steps to curb medical infection in hospitals dealing with Covid-19.
Presiding over a review meeting in Lucknow, he asked the principal health secretary to take regular feedback from the department's nodal officials posted in the respective districts to take preemptive measures to control the spread

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