Army doctor tests positive for Covid-19; wife, daughter among 17 quarantined

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, April 14

An Army doctor stationed in Delhi has tested positive for Covid. Another officer, who was working with him, is symptomatic and admitted to medical care.

Besides, 17 other contacts of the Covid-positive doctor have been identified as ‘high risk’ and another two are deemed as ‘low risk’.

In the high-risk category include the doctor’s wife and daughter. All the 17 are home quarantined.

The office block of the doctor has been sanitised and locked till April 19. The residential building where he lived has been sealed. Fumigation of other buildings visited by the officer has been done. Interviews and testing of those who may have come in contact are being done, sources said.

The doctor is the fourth cases of Covid in the Army. Two weeks ago, a doctor in Kolkatta and a JCO in Dehradun had tested positive. In early March, a jawan in Ladakh had tested positive. The Army has laid down very strict protocol for reporting symptoms of Covid, a failure to report attracts action under breach of discipline under Army Act.