New Delhi:All six hockey players including skipper Manpreet Singh have 'fully' recovered from COVID-19 and have been discharged from hospital.
Apart from Manpreet, Surender Kumar, Jaskaran Singh, Varun Kumar, Krishan B Pathak, and Mandeep Singh had tested positive for coronavirus.
On August 11, Mandeep was shifted to the hospital after his blood oxygen level dropped below normal. On the next day, the other five players were also admitted to the hospital as a precautionary measure.
"Six Hockey players Manpreet Singh, Surender Kumar, Jaskaran Singh, Varun Kumar, Krishan B Pathak, and Mandeep Singh, who had tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this month and were later shifted to hospital as a precautionary measure and for better monitoring were discharged from hospital earlier today and are now under quarantine at Sports Authority of India's (SAI) National Centre of Excellence (NCOE) in Bengaluru," SAI said in a statement.