KOTA KINABALU: Twelve members of the police force are in home quarantine after handling a suicide victim’s body, unaware that the person had contracted Covid-19.
Kota Kinabalu police chief Asst Comm Habibi Majinji said the team had unwittingly handled the 26-year-old man’s body which was found hanged from a tree in a forested area of Pulau Gaya on April 6.
He said police received confirmation on Sunday that the dead man was Covid-19 positive after the deceased was screened for the virus during a post-mortem to determine the cause of death.
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