Jodhpur: 30 BSF jawans test positive for Coronavirus

JODHPUR: Thirty BSF jawans, forming part of a company deployed earlier in the Walled City area in Delhi on internal security duty, tested positive for Covid-19 in Jaipur on Wednesday, an official of the border guarding force said.

According to the BSF official, all these jawans were the part of a BSF company comprising 65 jawans, which had been sent to Delhi from Jaipur on internal security duty and had been put up at the Jama Masjid in the national Capital.

Meanwhile, 85 more BSF personnel have tested positive for Coronavirus, a force official said on Wednesday.

These include over 60 troops, who were deployed for law and order duties in the Jamia and Chandni Mahal areas of Delhi, and six from the escort team of the Inter-ministerial Central Team (IMCT) that toured West Bengal to check COVID-19 containment measures in the state. At least 37 infected personnel are from the Tripura frontier of the force.

A total of 85 new cases have been detected. The troops were performing essential and operational duties, a force spokesperson said.

On the other hand, the entire company of 30 jawans was air-lifted to Jodhpur on Monday and was quarantined at the BSF’S Subsidiary Training Centre (STC) in Jaipur after some of the personnel of the company tested positive.

“Their samples were taken on Tuesday after they arrived in Jodhpur and had been sent to AIIMS for examination. The report was released by AIIMS on Wednesday morning, in which they were tested positive,” the BSF official said.