12 more BSF praharis' test corona-positive in Jodhpur

Twelve more jawans of a BSF company, which had been deployed earlier in the Walled City area of the national capital on internal security duty, tested positive for coronavirus infection on Thursday.

The tewelve BSF praharis' were found infected a day after their 30 other colleagues tested positive for the infection, taking the total number of Delhi-returned infected BSF personnel in Jodhpur to 42, said an official.

Test reports of the samples of these jawans were released by the state's Medical and Health Department on Thursday afternoon.

According to a BSF official, all these jawans were the part of a BSF company comprising 57 jawans, which had been sent to Delhi from Jaipur on internal security duty and had been put up at the Jama Masjid in the national capital.

The entire company was air-lifted to Jodhpur on Monday and was quarantined at the BSF's Subsidiary Training Center (STC) here after some of the jawans of the company deployed in the walled city area in New Delhi tested ...