Hardeep Singh Puri: A sixth of Air India’s staff contracted Covid-19, 19 dead

In a shocking news from Air India a sixth of it's staff have tested COVID-19 positive. So far, 19 Air India employees have died due to the corona. Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri informed about this in Parliament. As on February 1, a total of 1995 Air India employees had contracted corona. This includes the staff involved in the Vande Bharat campaign. A total of 583 patients are currently undergoing treatment at the hospital.

As of 1 January, Air India had about 12,350 staff on its payroll, including 8,290 permanent staff and 4,060 contractual staff, according to data provided by an Air India spokesperson.

“The covid-19 test for the crew is undertaken as per Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) issued by the medical department of Air India, which is based on advisory guidelines issued by the government from time to time," Puri added.

India continues to follow the trajectory of steady decline in active cases with the country's total active caseload dropping to 1.36 lakh (1,36,872) today. India's Recovery Rate of 97.32 per cent is amongst the highest in the world. The difference between the recovered and active cases has further increased to 1,04,96,153 today.