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Army personnel distribute packaged food to the homeless in Chennai on 31 March 2020 | Image Source : PTI A medical team from the Army was deployed at the Narela quarantine camp in Delhi Friday where some of the coronavirus-infected patients from the Tablighi Jamaat event are being kept. This is the first time the armed service has been deployed at a civil centre set up to handle the coronavirus cases. So far, the Army’s doctors and specialists have only been operating out of the quarantine centres set up by the force. Defence sources said none of the quarantined people misbehaved with the Army medical team after reports emerged that some Tablighi Jamaat members refused to cooperate and even harassed civil medical teams . “This deployment consists of two doctors and two nurses. They are accompanied by a protective unit as per standard operating procedure,” said an Army source. Health ministry requests for Army team Another source said that the deployment was made at the request of th...