Five more persons, including two remand prisoners, tested positive for COVID-19 in the district on Friday. Two of those who tested positive came from abroad, while one from another State. The two remand prisoners were nabbed over different cases on May 25 in the Venjaramoodu police station limits, where a person arrested in an illicit liquor case had tested positive earlier this week. 30 officers in quarantine“Following the previous COVID-19 case involving a remand prisoner, 30 officers from the Venjaramoodu station had gone into quarantine. Among the other three who tested positive, the 40-year-old from Kadinamkulam arrived from Kuwait on May 26 at the Karipur International Airport.

Source: The Hindu May 29, 2020 16:07 UTC