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Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh said around 250 city police officers have tested positive for Covid-19 coronavirus disease to date.
Singh visited the Sir JJ Marg police station, which has the highest number of Covid-19 cases in the city, on Thursday. Twenty-seven of the Covid-19 cops are reportedly posted here.
Other police stations such as Dharavi, Wadala and Vakola are among the worst affected at 94 police stations in the city.
Singh also said that most of the infected police officers are asymptomatic and none of them are in intensive care.
So far, three Mumbai police officers have died from Covid-19.
As of Thursday morning, the Maharashtra Police Department recorded 531 cases of Covid-19. This includes 250 cases from the Mumbai police. Of the 531 cases, around 480 are police officers, while the rest 51 are officers. About 39 have recovered, while five died from the infection.
Meanwhile, an additional 40 people, including underground prisoners and jail officials, inside Mumbai’s Arthur Road Prison tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday morning.
It came a day after the Maharashtra Prisons Department reported its first Covid-19 case after a 45-year-old man, who is facing charges under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, tested positive for the disease.
The Arthur Road Prison, which has the capacity to house 800 prisoners, currently has some 2,700 inmates.
The count in Mumbai, the most affected city in the country by the coronavirus pandemic, crossed 10,000 points on Thursday. It reported the highest single-day jump of 769 Covid-19 infections on Wednesday, officials from the state health department said. The total number of registered cases in the city is 10,714.
The city accounts for 63.93 percent of the state’s total infections and 19.20 percent of the national bill.
The Mumbai Civic Corps, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), has projected 75,000 cases by the end of May.
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