Multiple police departments in Southern California say they have been receiving more 911 calls from residents concerned that their coughing neighbor may have the coronavirus.
The phone calls have increased concurrently with the number of coronavirus cases in Riverside and San Bernardino County, the Desert Sun reported.
Sgt.
Mike Casavan of the Palm Springs Police Department told the outlet on
Monday that dispatchers have received at least five of these types of
calls in the past week. Police Cmdr. Paul Herrera of neighboring
Cathedral City said dispatchers have received similar calls.
Dispatchers
there have been instructed to ask each caller whether the person they
were calling about had recently returned from a trip abroad. But as the
outbreak grew worse, they began asking callers whether the person has
had contact with someone who has tested positive for the coronavirus....
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