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By TRN Online, Kathmandu, Aug. 6: Twenty more officials of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) have tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday.
Of the 80 swab samples collected from CIAA on Tuesday for Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test, as many as 20 officials were found to be infected with the virus, informed Dhan Prasad Poudel, medical technologist of the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division (EDCD).
Prior to this, the virus infection was detected in 15 officials of the commission. The majority of the CIAA officials who tested positive for the virus are frontline security workers.
The EDCD had also collected swab samples of the officials deployed at the Prime Minister's residence, Baluwatar, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. No cases of virus infection were detected in these offices, informed Poudel.
The EDCD has also been collecting swab samples of the officials of the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), Supreme Court (SC) and Kathmandu District Court (KDC).
82 swabs were collected from the MoHP and 300 were collected from the SC and KDC, said Poudel.
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