India's defence secretary tests positive for Covid-19

印度国防秘书新冠检测呈阳性

NEW DELHI: In a development that has unsettled the country’s top defence establishment in South Block on the Raisina Hill complex here, Union defence secretary Ajay Kumar has tested positive for Covid-19.

新德里：印度国防秘书库马尔的新冠检测结果呈阳性，这使得位于印度行政大楼南楼的最高国防机构感到不安。

Sources said defence minister Rajnath Singh and some other top military and civilian officers did not attend their offices on Wednesday after the report of Kumar testing positive sent shock waves down the corridors of South Block.

消息称，库马尔检测呈阳性的报告在行政大楼南楼引发强烈反应，印度国防部长拉杰纳特·辛格和其他一些高级军事和文职官员周三没有到办公室。

“Extensive contact tracing and major disinfection of offices in South Block is underway. There is a list of around 30 people who came in close contact with the defence secretary over the last couple of days. They have been told to go into self-quarantine,” said a source.

消息人士称：“有关机构正在行政大楼南楼个各个办公室进行广泛的接触者追踪及消毒工作。约有30人在过去几天里与国防秘书有过密切接触，他们已被告知要进行自我隔离。”

Defence ministry spokesperson A Bharat Bhushan Babu, on being contacted by TOI, refused to say anything on the matter. Repeated calls to Kumar, a 1985-batch IAS officer of the Kerala cadre, also went unanswered. The defence minister’s office, in turn, confirmed Singh did not go to South Block on Wednesday but said “he is not in quarantine” at his official residence.

印度时报联系了印度国防部发言人Bharat Bhushan Babu，他拒绝就此事发表评论。记者多次致电库马尔，也无人接听。印度国防部长办公室随后证实，辛格周三没有前往行政大楼南楼，但表示“他在官邸，没有隔离”。

The defence secretary is part of virtually all meetings summoned by the minister, while also regularly interacting with the military brass. His office is located on the first-floor of South Block in close proxmity to the minister’s office.

国防秘书库马尔几乎参与了部长召集的所有会议，同时也定期与军方高层互动。他的办公室位于行政大楼南楼的一层，靠近部长办公室。

Offices of the Army and Navy chiefs, General M M Naravane and Admiral Karambir Singh, are some distance away on the same floor. While the office of first-ever chief of defence staff, General Bipin Rawat, is temporarily housed in the basement of South Block, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal R K S Bhadauria sits in the nearby Vayu Sena Bhawan.

陆军司令M M Naravane将军和海军上将Karambir Singh的办公室在同一层楼里不远处。第一任国防参谋长比平·拉瓦特将军的办公室暂时设在行政大楼南楼的地下室，而空军司令空军上尉R K S Bhadauria的办公室则在附近的Vayu Sena Bhawan。

以下是印度时报读者的评论：译者：Jessica.Wu

Kumar Gaurav

At last it started affecting top beaurocrats. They deserve to feel d pain of poor sufferers

终于开始感染高级官员了，让他们尝尝这种滋味。

Rajiv Ahuja

Government should also starts living with corona as they are asking people to

印度政府要求人们与新冠病毒共存，也应该要求官员们这么做。

Shivam Sharma

This shows that they are not hiding, they are doing their work

这表明官员们没有躲起来，他们都在岗工作啊

Ajithlal Gangadharan

They will be made to work!

他们是被要求到岗的

Rajesh Kumar

There are spy operating in India trying to infect all top defense and politicians and some congress are part of it as they also tried to infect Gujarat CM by arranging interview.

有间谍在印度活动，试图感染所有高级国防官员和政客，其中一些间谍是国大党，他们也试图通过安排采访感染古吉拉特邦首席部长。

Jay Boro

How long people will run away from virus? At one point of time everybody will surely get infected. Stop dreaming about vaccine, scientists barely understand virus.

人们还要躲避病毒多久?总有一天，每个人都肯定会被感染的，别再幻想疫苗了，科学家对这种病毒几乎一无所知。

Reddy

Everybody is have, plain simple just follow strict hygiene, diet increase immunity, follow...

大家都要遵循严格的卫生标准，提高免疫力…

Abcd

It is good enough if doctors are able to save lives. Then there will be no need for lockdown.

如果医生能保住患者的命，那就够了，那就没必要封城了。

Siddharth

I hope he is admitted in Govt hospital as he is a govt employee.

他是政府雇员，希望他住进公立医院，

yignisol

guys like him are treated like kings.He is very powerful man and more.

他位高权重，像他这样的人会受到国王一样的待遇。

Deviprasad Nayak

Stop all connection with Corona affected cities. did the same with Wuhan.Dont run trains from these cities

封锁受疫情影响的印度城市，之前就对武汉进行了封城，这些城市的火车不得运营。

Da Da

Virus is spreading from top to bottom and no difference rich or poor even rich are well guarded all time.

在病毒面前，没有贫富之分，虽然富人也一直受到很好的保护。

Madhavan Nair

Beware of Indian anti-nationals, jihadists and .

要小心反国家分子、圣战分子和在印度的。

selvarajc

Humans discriminate but corona does not.

人会有歧视，但新冠病毒不会。

yignisol

send him to state govt hospital.He is indian like us

送他去公立医院医治，他和我们一样是印度人

Hyp3r Strik3r

He is top ias official while u r uneducated man

他是高级官员，而你是一个没文化的人。

Deepak Dalvi

Why so much of sensitive information is made public? Media has too much information in India! No control and restraint on what is getting published in media!

为什么这么多敏感信息被公开?

印度媒体知道的信息太多了!

在媒体上发表的信息也不加以过滤!

Raj S

Kejriwal has completely mishandled the coronavirus pandemic in Delhi. Every day 1000 cases are coming. He just can't ask his voters to stay at home. Now, this is affecting Central govt officers, doing vital functions.

德里首席部长没控制好疫情，每天新增1000例。他就是不要求选民呆在家里。现在，连中央政府官员都被感染了。

Abcd

The same goes with Mumbai

孟买的情况也是如此

king_maker69

CoronaVirus has proved India is a failed union or nation wherein a semi literate & dumb PM dictates what 1.3 billion people should do.

此次疫情证明印度是一个失败国家，由一个愚蠢的半文盲总理指挥13亿人

Ashok Dhingra

fear of God and doing good deeds can save this universe from natural calamities.

敬畏神灵，积德行善，可使宇宙免遭自然灾害。

ivanshika reddy kandakatla

omg

天啊

Ajithlal Gangadharan

This is expected. As me and many said earlier the real number of infected people in india is in crores and not in lakhs. As we can never test everyone, it spreads like wildfire.

这是意料之中的，印度的实际感染人数达到上千万，不是十几万。我们不可能对每个人进行检测，疫情就像野火一样蔓延。

Uddin

May be a handiwork of Pakistan or Kashmiris.

可能是巴基斯坦人或克什米尔人的杰作。