MUMBAI -- Around 1 in 6 staff members, or 1,995 people, at India's largest airline, Air India, have tested positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic began, with 19 ground staffers killed by the disease.
These alarming numbers were reported to the Indian parliament by Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri. By comparison, among India's population of 1.3 billion, about 11 million people have been confirmed to be infected so far, an infection rate of under 1%.
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