Covid-19: 26 Navy sailors test positive; no cases on combat ships

India tally nears 15,000-mark

Twenty-six Indian Navy personnel have tested positive for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) at the Western Naval Command in Mumbai, in the first case of a major outbreak of the deadly infection in the armed forces, as the confirmed cases in the country neared the 15,000-mark on Saturday.
 

All the infected sailors were staying at a bachelors’ residential block at the INS Angre, a shore-based logistics and support establishment, just a few hundred metres away from the main Naval dockyard housing a range of frontline warships and submarines of the force.
 

“There has so far not been a single case of