An army official in Delhi said the anaesthetist, a colonel, may have come in contact with someone who had travelled abroad. “Now that his elder brother has tested positive, we cannot take any chances,” the hospital official said. Two women who were at the wedding and tested positive on Saturday were brought to the Beleghata ID Hospital on Sunday. Army officials said a junior commissioned officer in Dehradun too tested positive on Sunday, taking the number of Covid-19 patients in the army to three. Earlier, a 34-year-old soldier whose father had travelled to Iran last month had tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

Source: The Telegraph March 29, 2020 21:11 UTC