Coronavirus: Army decides to place personnel under green, yellow, red' categories

The Indian Army has decided to classify all its personnel reporting back from leave, temporary duties and training courses into three categories of 'green, yellow and red' as part of measures to check the spread of coronavirus, official sources said on Monday.

Under a fresh set of instructions, the Army headquarters also placed all ranks of the operationally-critical Northern Command and personnel belonging to Army Medical Corps, Army Dental Corps and Military Nursing Service under "top priority" bracket.

A sizeable number of personnel from the Army Medical Corps, Army Dental Corps and Military Nursing Service have been part of various teams deployed to treat infected people.

Personnel placed under top priority bracket also included the soldiers whose units/stations are within 500 km from their place of leave by road.

In the directives to all its bases, establishments and formations, the Army said all personnel requiring a quarantine period of 14 days after resuming duties will be categorised as 'yellow'