Mumbai: A Sub-Inspector Assistant Mahendra Singh Bhati (57) with the motor vehicle department in Nagada is the second to die in Covid-19 on Saturday, taking victims to 125 in Mumbai police forces since the beginning of the pandemic.
In neighboring Navi Mumbai Regional Police, 99 police including joint police commissioners have tested positive covid until Sunday.
At the Lower of Western Railway Parel workshop, of the 500 people undergoing Covid tests, 62 have been positively tested and in the set of 800 other tests at the Mahalaxmi workshop for the past week, said the staff tested positive, said source.
This is among 342 people who are now positive covid on the middle and western railways.
In Cr, a total of 90 people have been tested positively and this includes 15 senior officers and 75 other personnel.
The train authority has begun cleaning workplaces, workshops, and the train station place including booking offices considering rapid increase in Covid cases.
In the last eight days, 523 Mumbai police personnel were infected.
ASI Bhati works as a driver to a senior officer in the MV Department, living in a police camp in Goregaon.
“Bhati rushed to Lilavati Hospital after she complained of chest pain around 3am on Saturday.
She died around 5.12 in the morning,” said a police officer.
Bhati is to retire from the police on April 30.
In Navi Mumbai, Police Commissioner Bipin Kumar Singh, “among 99 police officers at the Navi Mumbai Komisarier police, who had tested positive Covid, there were 21 police and 78 police officers, including women.” The best, the conductor is worried because they are the most “vulnerable” to infection because the bus ran almost packed at rush hour morning and night on weekdays.
A L Quadros Uni Mumbai Taximen, said that no driver affiliated with trade unions has so far reported a positive covid until Sunday and they take all prevention steps.