Paramilitary forces have almost witnessed five-fold increase in active Covid-19 cases in the last 10 days. On April 5, jawans who had tested positive for the virus in Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) were 522 while now the tally goes up to 2,915. Apart from this, the total infected jawans who were tested positive in last 24 hours have also increased more than five times.
Fifty seven jawans were tested positive on April 5, which now increased to 301 on the 10th day (Thursday). According to the data, Central Reserve Police Force and Border Security Force have seen the highest spike in number of COVID cases. The BSF, which had only 20 cases on April 5 has seen a massive spike and on April 15 it witnessed 117 cases in the last 24 hours. The total number of active cases in BSF stands at 1,850 which was 166 on 10 days back. Similarly, CRPF which were witnessing four to five cases per day in first week of April has seen massive spike.
On April 5, 97 jawans had been tested positive for the virus. The total active cases in CRPF has almost doubled.