Armed Forces to pay tribute to Covid warriors on Sunday; here's all that is scheduled

As India is all set to enter third phase of lockdown, armed forces on Sunday will pay special tribute to Covid-19 warriors. Currently, India has reported a total of 37776 cases, 10017 have been cured and 1223 deaths have been reported. On Friday, Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and three service chiefs - Navy Chief Admiral Karambir Singh, Army Chief Gen M M Naravane and Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria. addressed media and informed that  Armed Forces have planned a series of special activities as a tribute to healthcare workers, law enforcement, delivery personnel and media frighting vel Coronavirus pandemic. 

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Here is all you need to kw:

1. Indian Armed Forces will conduct fly-pasts, light up ships at sea, play military bands and shower flower petals on hospitals treating coronavirus patients on Sunday in a grand display of gratitude to lakhs of people such as doctors, paramedics and policemen engd in country’s fight against pandemic.

2. thanks-giving activities will start with laying of wreaths at police memorial in Delhi and in several or cities on Sunday morning to hour police personnel deployed in enforcement of nationwide lockdown.

3. It will be followed by fly-pasts by fighter jets and transport aircraft of Indian Air Force, covering a sizeable number of cities and towns across country between 10 AM and 11 AM.

4. fighter aircraft formations, comprising Sukhoi-30 MKI, MiG-29 and Jaguar, will be flying over Rajpath, Delhi''s centrepiece boulevard, and will orbit over city for around 30 minutes from 10 AM.

5. Indian Navy helicopters will shower petals on Kasturba Gandhi hospital and naval medical hospital Ashwini in Mumbai, GMC and ESI hospitals in Goa, Ernakulam General hospital in Kochi, Government TB and Chest hospital in Vizag and GB Pant hospital in Port Blair.

6. Western Naval Command will illuminate five naval ships from 7:30 PM to 11:59 PM off Gateway of India in Mumbai. y will display banners like "India Salutes Corona Warriors" and will sound siren of ships and fire flares at 7:30 PM at anchor.

7. Naval air stations at Goa will organise a human chain on runway to hour ''corona warriors''.

8. fixed-wing and fighter aircraft of Indian Air Force will conduct fly-pasts from Srinagar to Thiruvananthapuram and from Dibrugarh to Kutch on Sunday evening.

9. In Delhi, IAF helicopters are scheduled to shower flower petals on a number of hospitals including AllMS, Deen Dayal Upadhyay hospital, GTB, LNJP, Ram Mahar Lohia hospital, Safdarjung, Sri Ganga Ram hospital, Baba Saheb Ambedkar hospital, Max hospital in Saket, Apollo Indraprastha hospital and Army Research and Referral hospital.

10. Eastern Naval Command will illuminate two ships at anchor from 7:30 pm to midnight at Visakhapatnam coast.

11. Military bands will play patriotic tunes outside various civil hospitals treating coronavirus patients across country

12. Indian Coast Guard ships will be seen at 24 places including in Porbandar, Okha, Ratnagiri, Dahanu, Murud, Goa, New Mangalaore, Kavarati, Karaikal, Chennai, Krishnapatnam, Nizamapatanam, Puducherry, Kakinada, Paradip, Sagar Island, Port Blair, Diglipur, Mayabundur, Hut bay and Campbel Bay. 

13. Air Force fighter aircraft will do aerial salute at Delhi's Rajpath, Red Fort, Sri Ganga Ram hospital, Army Research and Referral hospital, Lotus Temple, Base Hospital (IA) and Connaught Place. (10.15-10.30).
    
    In Mumbai, at Marine Drive (10.30AM).
    
    In Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Guwahati, Patna and Luckw, fly past will take place above state assembly starting from 10.30 AM. 

    

14. Air Force transport Aircraft schedule:

    

    
    
     

15. Petal drop schedule as informed by IAF:

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