DC Guard Chief ‘Deeply Troubled’ After Nearly 200 Troops Test Positive for COVID-19 – By Gina Harkins (Military.com) / January 25 2021
Coronavirus cases have jumped nearly fivefold over the last 10 days among troops deployed from across the country to the nation’s capital, military officials said on Monday.
Almost 200 National Guard members have tested positive for COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, said Maj. Gen. William Walker, commander of the District of Columbia National Guard.
“I’m deeply troubled by the number,” Walker said. Military.com reported the number of positive cases among Guard members in Washington, D.C. was 43 as of Jan. 15.
All Guard members who test positive are quarantined and won’t return to their home states until they’re fully recovered, Gen. Dan Hokanson, chief of the National Guard Bureau, said.
