Nearly 99 per cent of paramilitary personnel affected with Covid have recovered.
In numbers, out of the 88,198 Covid-19 infections in the paramilitary ranks since the outbreak of the pandemic last year, as many as 87, 634 patients have recovered. Only 217 patients continue to be currently active, including 23 persons who contracted the disease during the last 48 hours. The fatalities in the paramilitary ranks stand at 331 till now.
The total number of Covid-19 infections have increased by about eight percent from 81,216 cases as on June 4, to 88,198 as on Sunday. Likewise, the recoveries have improved by over 11.57 percent during the last five and a half months.
During the last 45 days, the number of active patients in the paramilitary ranks shrunk from 341 to 217 which is a decline of about 35 percent.
A total of 347 patients have died in the paramilitary ranks till now, including 131 in Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)90 in the Border Security Force (BSF) and 83 in Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).
Likewise, 23 patients of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) died due to the Covid-19 disease followed by 17 in the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), two in National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and one in National Security Guards (NSG).
Currently, 37 patients in the CRPF, 75 in BSF, 73 in CISF, 22 in SSB, six in ITBP and two each in NDRF and NSG are active cases of novel coronavirus infection.
On October 6, out of about 87,500 paramilitary personnel infected with Covid-19, 331 patients were active and 341 infected personnel had succumbed to the disease. The tally of active patients then had reduced by 90 percent during a four month period.
Out of the 87,415 cases of Covid-19 in these seven paramilitary forces, 86,743 patients had then recovered from the deadly viral disease.
As on June 4, 81,216 paramilitary personnel were infected with the coronavirus disease of which 77,486 patients had recovered and 320 patients had died.