Coronavirus: 25 Indian Navy sailors test positive
In a major development, 25 sailors of the Indian Navy have tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday. As per the report, all of them are from the shore-based logistics hub INS Angre, in Mumbai, which is the headquarters of the Western Naval Command.
The Naval officials confirmed that 25 sailors had tested positive and were under treatment at INHS Asvini, Naval Hospital at Colaba in Mumbai. The 25 sailors had no symptoms but were quarantined after a sailor tested positive some days back. INS Angre has been given the task to supply logistics to naval units.
The Indian Navy officials said that INS Angre is under total lockdown. The Navy also said that there were no coronavirus cases on board the warships or submarines.
Reportedly, more than a dozen ships of the Indian Navy are on patrol duty along the shore and also on deployment such as those for anti-piracy off the coast of Oman on the western seaboard of India, also near the Malacca Straits to the east. Meanwhile, long-range surveillance planes of the Indian Navy are doing daily sorties on both sides of the peninsula.
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On the other hand, the Indian Army has reported 8 positive coronavirus cases so far. “We have only 8 cases in the entire Army. Of the 8, two are doctors and one nursing assistant. Four are responding well to the treatment,” Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane said on Friday.
-PTC News
