Eight more boxers test positive in natl camp

New Delhi, Jan 13: Eight more boxers tested positive for COVID-19 in the ongoing men’s national camp at NIS, Patiala on Thursday, taking the total number of cases to 26 but all those infected are complaining of “relatively mild symptoms”. After 18 campers, 12 boxers and six support staff members returned positive for the virus on Wednesday, eight more were added to the tally after a fresh round of testing. The total number of infected boxers is now 20. “Two main boxers Sumit and Rohit Mor and six of their sparring partners have tested positive. The camp is continuing and all those infected are in isolation with mostly mild symptoms, it’s nothing like the second wave,” a source in the national camp told PTI. Among the support staff infected are head coach Narender Rana and coach coordinator C A Kuttappa along with assistant coach Suranjoy Singh. The camp will also feature Tokyo Olympians Amit Panghal, Vikas Krishan, Manish Kaushik, Ashish Chaudhary and Satish Kumar in a couple of days. The five had been kept out earlier for not participating in the national championships. (PTI)1