Army Officer Coronavirus

Two of four officers were participating in a course of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM).

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lauded a retired army officer for supporting stray animals during the coronavirus pandemic, and said such an initiative was a source of inspiration for the society.

India's public rollout of coronavirus vaccines began on Monday to strengthen the fight against the deadly virus that has affected more than 1.1 crore people in a year.

The Marine Corps said its No 2 officer, General Gary Thomas, had tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the second senior military official to do so this week, another sign of the danger to top brass who met both men at the Pentagon.

All the officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Delhi Police participating in the Independence Day ceremony at Delhi's Red Fort will have to severely restrict their activities in view of the coronavirus pandemic, sources said today. They are only allowed to go to the rehearsals and return home. Their domestic helps, cooks and drivers will have to...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's chief of staff, Army General Walter Souza Braga Netto, has tested positive for COVID-19, his office said on Monday, becoming the seventh Brazilian minister to have contracted the disease.

A brigadier of the Indian Army died in Kolkata on Thursday of complications related to coronavirus infection. Posted at Eastern Command, he is believed to be the highest-ranking Indian Army officer to have lost his life to the virus.

Colonel Santosh Babu, the army officer who died for the country on Monday night, was to be transferred to Hyderabad but the move was delayed by the coronavirus lockdown. He last spoke to his mother on Sunday, a day before he was killed in a violent face-off with Chinese troops in eastern Ladakh.

A team of Army doctors and nursing staff has taken over the operations at a quarantine centre in Delhi, one of the largest in India. The team of 40, which includes six medical officers and 18 paramedics, manages the isolation unit in northwest Delhi's Narela between 8 am to 8 pm; all of them have volunteered to stay at the facility.

A woman officer posted at a military hospital in Dehradun and a nine-month-old infant are among the five fresh coronavirus cases detected in Uttarakhand in the last 24 hours, officials said on Saturday.

Amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, the army issued a fresh advisory on Friday, saying 35 per cent officers and 50 per cent junior commissioned officers (JCOs) in its headquarters here will take turns in working from home for a week from March 23.

An employee of a leather manufacturing factory in Noida, near Delhi, has been infected with the highly contagious Novel Coronavirus or COVID-19, a medical officer in Uttar Pradesh has said. The factory has been fumigated and sanitised and all the employees numbering around 700 have been kept under home quarantine, officials have said. The patient, ...

Two of four officers were participating in a course of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM).

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lauded a retired army officer for supporting stray animals during the coronavirus pandemic, and said such an initiative was a source of inspiration for the society.

India's public rollout of coronavirus vaccines began on Monday to strengthen the fight against the deadly virus that has affected more than 1.1 crore people in a year.

The Marine Corps said its No 2 officer, General Gary Thomas, had tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the second senior military official to do so this week, another sign of the danger to top brass who met both men at the Pentagon.

All the officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Delhi Police participating in the Independence Day ceremony at Delhi's Red Fort will have to severely restrict their activities in view of the coronavirus pandemic, sources said today. They are only allowed to go to the rehearsals and return home. Their domestic helps, cooks and drivers will have to...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's chief of staff, Army General Walter Souza Braga Netto, has tested positive for COVID-19, his office said on Monday, becoming the seventh Brazilian minister to have contracted the disease.

A brigadier of the Indian Army died in Kolkata on Thursday of complications related to coronavirus infection. Posted at Eastern Command, he is believed to be the highest-ranking Indian Army officer to have lost his life to the virus.

Colonel Santosh Babu, the army officer who died for the country on Monday night, was to be transferred to Hyderabad but the move was delayed by the coronavirus lockdown. He last spoke to his mother on Sunday, a day before he was killed in a violent face-off with Chinese troops in eastern Ladakh.

A team of Army doctors and nursing staff has taken over the operations at a quarantine centre in Delhi, one of the largest in India. The team of 40, which includes six medical officers and 18 paramedics, manages the isolation unit in northwest Delhi's Narela between 8 am to 8 pm; all of them have volunteered to stay at the facility.

A woman officer posted at a military hospital in Dehradun and a nine-month-old infant are among the five fresh coronavirus cases detected in Uttarakhand in the last 24 hours, officials said on Saturday.

Amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, the army issued a fresh advisory on Friday, saying 35 per cent officers and 50 per cent junior commissioned officers (JCOs) in its headquarters here will take turns in working from home for a week from March 23.

An employee of a leather manufacturing factory in Noida, near Delhi, has been infected with the highly contagious Novel Coronavirus or COVID-19, a medical officer in Uttar Pradesh has said. The factory has been fumigated and sanitised and all the employees numbering around 700 have been kept under home quarantine, officials have said. The patient, ...