{"id":322389,"date":"2020-04-18T04:58:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T04:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322389"},"modified":"2020-04-18T04:58:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T04:58:46","slug":"at-least-20-navy-sailors-in-mumbai-test-covid-19-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/at-least-20-navy-sailors-in-mumbai-test-covid-19-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 20 Navy Sailors in Mumbai test COVID-19 positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-321788 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/virus-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus-3.jpg 672w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus-3-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus-3-527x420.jpg 527w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/>At least 20 Navy personnel at INS Angre have tested positive for novel coronavirus in Mumbai on Saturday, according to the officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Indian Navy today confirmed that\u00a021 serving personnel have tested positive for Covid-19 within naval premises at Mumbai. Among these includes 20 sailors of INS Angre, a shore establishment at Mumbai.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to officials, the sailors, who tested COVID-19 positive have been admitted to the naval hospital INHS Asvini in Mumbai and are now in quarantine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Most of these cases are asymptomatic and have been traced to a single sailor who was tested positive on April 7, 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The group of Navy personnel who have tested COVID-19 positive reside in the same accommodation block at INS Angre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">All primary contacts have also been tested for Covid-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The entire in-living block was immediately put under quarantine &#8211; containment zone &#8211; and INS Angre too is under lockdown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Maharashtra is the worst affected state with maximum number of COVID-19 cases \u2013 3323 and 201 deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 20 Navy personnel at INS Angre have tested positive for novel coronavirus in Mumbai on Saturday, according to the officials. The Indian Navy today confirmed that\u00a021 serving personnel have tested positive for Covid-19 within naval premises at Mumbai. Among these includes 20 sailors of INS Angre, a shore establishment at Mumbai. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[12470,89,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322390,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322389\/revisions\/322390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}