The number of Covid-19 cases in the paramilitary forces jumped nearly four-fold in a week from 1,668 cases on January 7 to 6,595 cases on January 13, including one death due to the deadly viral disease in CRPF and 1,254 infections within the last 24 hours.
Till now, as many as 95.980 paramilitary personnel have been infected with Covid-19 of which 89,036 patients have recovered. The forces have suffered 349 deaths till so far and 6,595 patients continue to be active.
As on Thursday, out of a total of 6.595 cases, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) tops the list with 2,237 active cases followed by 1,824 in Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), 1.048 cases in Border Security Force (BSF), 892 in Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), 365 in Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), 181 in National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and 48 cases in National Security Guard (NSG), according to official data.
However, genome sequencing has not been undertaken and there is no clarity if there are any cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in their ranks, officials said.
During the last 24 hours, as many as 1,254 personnel were detected with the infection, including a maximum 423 in CISF, 362 in CRPF, 187 in SSB, 182 in BSF, 60 in ITBP, 21 in NSG and 19 in NDRF. This is nearly three times the number of paramilitary personnel contracting the disease in a single day as on January 7 with a tally of 441 cases.
In a single day, the tally of Covid cases had jacked up by 441 cases from 1,227 cases on Thursday to 1,668 cases on January 7.
Out of the total casualties of 349, the CRPF has taken the maximum toll at 133 deaths followed by 90 in BSF, 83 in CISF, 23 in SSB and 17 in ITBP. Likewise, the NDRF lost two personnel and the NSG suffered a casualty of one personnel due to Covid-19.
Earlier, the number of active Covid-19 cases in the paramilitary forces has jumped over 11 times in just 11 days from a meagre 148 cases as on December 28 to 1,668 cases on January 7.