As India steps up 'war' against Covid-19, military to deploy more resources

Testing facilities, 15,000 beds, military schools to made available if needed, says defence ministry

With the national effort against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic being increasingly enunciated in the rhetoric of a “war”, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on Friday the deployment of additional military medical and logistics resources to aid government health authorities.

The MoD said that, in addition to six quarantine facilities the armed forces have already established at Mumbai, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Hindon, Manesar and Chennai, the military will make available “high dependency unit” and “intensive care unit” beds in 51 armed forces hospitals across the country.  “Some of these facilities are located at Kolkata, Visakhapatnam, Kochi, Dundigal near Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Kanpur,