THE Criminal Investigations Department headquarters was
Tuesday morning evacuated after a coronavirus scare.
The incident happened when staff reportedly saw a sickly
female colleague sleeping on the carpet on the fifth floor and everyone,
fearing for their lives, scurried out of the nine-storey building.
“When people saw her sleeping on the floor, they claimed
she had collapsed as a result of the coronavirus. So word started spreading in
the whole building and people dashed out,” a source in the police force said
yesterday.
“Now the building has been evacuated and no one has
returned there. Actually, there are people spraying the whole building,
decontaminating everything if at all there had been any contamination. Each and
every square inch is being decontaminated.”
The source said no one had returned to the building by end
of day yesterday, but everyone had been “ordered to report for duty next week
Monday”.
National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul
Nyathi was not reachable for comment as he was not picking his mobile phone.
Newsday
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