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Twenty-six Indian Navy personnel have tested positive for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) at the Western Naval Command in Mumbai, in the first case of a major outbreak of the deadly infection in the armed forces, as the confirmed cases in the country neared the 15,000-mark on Saturday.
All the infected sailors were staying at a bachelors’ residential block at the INS Angre, a shore-based logistics and support establishment, just a few hundred metres away from the main Naval dockyard housing a range of frontline warships and submarines of the force.
“There has so far not been a single case of
