Two Indian Army soldiers test positive for Coronavirus, includes one as a doctor

A colonel-rank doctor has tested positive for Covid-19 at Army Command Hospital in West Bengal's Kolkata, sources in the Indian Army said on Sunday. The officer was in New Delhi recently.

The officer has been put under quarantine and all precautions are being taken for his colleagues as well, sources said.

A junior commissioned officer in the Indian Army also tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday

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Colonel-rank doctor is serving at the Command Hospital in Kolkata while the JCO is posted to an Army base in Dehradun.

The sources said the Army has traced all those who have come in contact with the two persons and accordingly they were quarantined.

Both the doctor and the JCO are understood to have visited an Army facility near the national capital earlier this month.

The two patients are keeping good health, sources said.