Indian Navy issues detailed statement as 21 INS Angre sailors test Covid positive

UPDATE: While initial report stated that 21 sailors tested positive, number of Navy sailors who tested positive has w been updated to 26.  

As 21 sailors of Indian Navy at INS Angre in Mumbai tested positive, Navy has issued an official statement on Saturday. Navy said that most of cases were asymptomatic and have been traced to a single sailor who was tested positive on April 7. sailors were deployed at INS Angre that is a support establishment under Western Command in Mumbai.

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Navy in its statement said that all primary contacts (though asymptomatic) were tested for COVID 19. It also said that all sailors who tested positive resided in same accommodation block at INS Angre. "Entire living block was immediately put under quarantine - containment zone and INS Angre too is under lockdown. All actions as per established COVID-19 protocol are being taken. re are cases of infection onboard ships and submarines."  Navy ensured that it continues to actively support national effort in fight against COVID -19.

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Coronavirus crisis in India

Health Ministry, in its daily briefing on Friday, informed that re have been 1007 new COVID-19 cases and 23 deaths in last 24 hours, taking tally of confirmed cases and deaths to 13,387 and 437 respectively. While, 1749 patients have recovered, 260 in one day. 

Joint Secretary of Health Lav Agarwal also informed that aver growth rate of COVID-19 cases has declined by 40% from mid-March to w while doubling rate of disease has gone up to 6.2 days according to data of last seven days. Ministry furr informed that doubling rate is lower than national level in 19 States and Union Territories. recovery rate of COVID-19 patients has also improved to 13.06%.

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" aver growth factor of cases has been 1.2 from April 1, while during March 15-31, aver growth factor was 2.1. This decline of 40% has occurred due to an increase in testing, including testing of SARI (severe acute respiratory illness) and ILI (influenza like illness) cases," Joint Secretary of Health Lav Agarwal said.

He added India has been doing better than ors on outcome ratio — ratio of number of COVID-19 recoveries vs. number of deaths. "We are making efforts to furr improve this ratio," official said.

(Im Credits: Indian Navy Representational)

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