Mandeep Singh becomes 6th hockey player to test positive for COVID-19

Mandeep Singh, who is asymptomatic, is being treated alongside the other five players including chief Manpreet Singh, by specialists in Bengaluru, where the national camp is because of start on August 20 at the SAI focus. 

Mandeep Singh turned into the 6th national hockey player to test positive for coronavirus in front of the national camp in Bengaluru, the Sports Authority of India (SAI) said in an announcement on Monday. 

Being treated alongside five different players including commander Manpreet Singh, the 25-year old group forward from Jalandhar is asymptomatic. 

Other than Mandeep and Manpreet, protector Surender Kumar, Jaskaran Singh, drag-gleam Varun Kumar and goalkeeper Krishan Bahadur Pathak tried positive a week ago subsequent to coming back to the SAI Center where the national camp is because of start on August 20. 

 of Excellence in Bengaluru, has tried COVID positive, yet is asymptomatic," the SAI said in an announcement. 


As indicated by the SAI specialists, all the players were demonstrating just "gentle side effects" and are progressing nicely. They are housed in the National Center of Excellence in Bengaluru. The players were prior abandoned at the middle for more than two months (till June) when a national lockdown was forced to contain the infection. 

In the wake of returning from the break, the players were in required isolate before resumption of preparing at the middle. 

India's COVID-19 case count has crossed 22 lakh with the general loss of life approaching the 45,000-mark.