Coronavirus: Indian Navy says 21 sailors test positive at key Mumbai base

FT ONLINE

Indian defence officials have reported a coronavirus outbreak at a key naval base in the western city of Mumbai.

Twenty-one personnel have tested positive for Covid-19 at INS Angre, which is the seat of the force's western command, the navy said in a statement on Saturday.
It added that there are no infections aboard any ships or submarines.

India has 16,365 active infections and 521 deaths, according to the latest data from worldometer.

The Navy said that they had tested a number of personnel who had come into contact with a soldier who had tested positive earlier this month. Many of those who had tested positive for the virus, the statement added, were asymptomatic.

They are all currently undergoing treatment.