Tribune News Service
Hisar, September 2
A team of health officials was allegedly stopped and their medical kits were burnt when they went to take samples of contacts of a Covid patient in Nakta village of Fatehabad district, the police said on Wednesday.
The team had gone to Nakta village on Tuesday to take samples of a family after a member had tested positive and died at the medical College in Agroha on August 31.
A group of villagers armed with iron rods, sticks and other weapons did not let the team enter the village, according to a complaint by the health officials.
Some of the equipment such as rapid antigen kits were burnt during the incident, the police said.
A police spokesperson said a case under Sections 147, 149, 186, 269, 353, 435, 504 and 506 of the IPC and Section 51 (B) of the Disaster Management Act was registered against unidentified persons.
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