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NEW DELHI: Up to 75 or more of the three-quarters of the 94-member company of the BSF 126 battalion, which was deployed in Jama Masjid area together with Delhi Police, tested positive for Covid-19. This update occurred even when BSF reported the death of two of its Covid-positive employees in New Delhi and the death of CISF of a police chief in Mumbai.
With 126 Covid-19 cases added in the past two days, BSF has outperformed CRPF both in terms of the number of Covid-19 deaths and positive cases so far. As of May 7, BSF had reported two deaths and 193 positive Covid personnel, two of whom have recovered.
In comparison, CRPF has reported 162 positive Covid-19 personnel so far (of which one is dead and 2 have recovered), ITBP 82 (all active cases based in Delhi) and 33 CISF cases (of which one died Thursday).
BSF announced on Thursday the deaths of two Covid-19 staff members, including one who was already seriously ill with kidney disease and contracted the Covid-19 virus while visiting super specialty clinics for treatment. He succumbed in a Delhi hospital after suffering multiple organ failure.
Another 46-year-old BSF staff who had died on May 4, a day after being admitted to the general ward of Safdarjang hospital from an unrelated condition and then transferred to the ICU, tested positive after a Covid-19 examination. in your body before post mortem. The test result came only on Wednesday.
Another CISF police chief who was deployed at the Mumbai airport and who had tested positive a day ago died in a hospital on Thursday. The total number of active cases in CISF so far is 32, spread across Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata.
Minister of the Interior Amit Shah, in his message of condolence after the death of two BSF staff members, said: “Deeply sore to know about the loss of our two brave soldiers @BSF_India, who were fighting Covid-19. I join millions of Indians to mourn his premature disappearance ”.
DG, BSF S S Deswal and all ranks also mourned the death of the BSF crown warriors. Facing the challenges of securing borders, working with the civil administration and taking on other essential responsibilities, 41 new positive cases of Covid-19 have been reported since yesterday. By tracing the primary, secondary, and tertiary contacts of previously detected cases, testing of all listed contacts, mostly asymptomatic, was performed with priority after immediately placing them in quarantine. Some results are positive and most negative, ”a BSF spokesman said Thursday.
While 135 BSF employees have so far tested positive in Delhi, 54 have been found infected in Tripura and 6 in Kolkata.
Meanwhile, CRPF added one more Covid-positive case on Thursday, bringing the total number of infected staff to the force at 162, of which 1 has died, 159 are active cases and 2 have recovered.
ITBP reported 82 positive cases of Covid-19 on May 7, all in Delhi. In the last 24 hours alone, 8 staff members from an ITBP company deployed with the Delhi police and based in Rohini and 29 from the ITBP battalion in Tigri deployed for internal security service have tested positive.
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