POLICE OFFICER AT KOUKLIA POSITIVE FOR THE VIRUS

 Filenews 7 October 2020 - by Dora Christodoulou

A police officer serving at Kouklia Station was yesterday tested positive for the virus and the health protocol for similar cases was immediately put into full effect. As confirmed by speaking to "F", the spokesman of the Police Directorate of Paphos, Michalis Ioannou, with the notification of the positive case, the police officer in question, who was asymptomatic, was placed under house arrest, while in self-isolation were placed for the planned 14 days and his 10 colleagues who were in their position contacts of that police officer.

"Immediately the Police Station of Kouklia was closed and the necessary disinfection was carried out," said Mr. Ioannou, "while as of this morning the police station was reopened with the transfer of police officers from other units in Kouklia".

Meanwhile, three other cases were recorded in the last 24 hours in Paphos, two of which have already been transferred to the Reference Hospital in free Famagusta. This is a Greek Cypriot man and an elderly British man, while a woman from Pegia was placed in self-contained as she shows no symptoms.