250 cops beat Covid, report back to work

Around 250 personnel of the Mumbai Police who were infected with the coronavirus, recovered, were declared fit and have resumed their duties to protect the city in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.

Confirming the development, Naval Bajaj, joint commissioner (admin), Mumbai Police, said, “After recovering and being discharged, we ask our men to stay at home for a certain period before declaring them fully fit. Around 250 such personnel have been declared fully fit and reported back to duty.” Of the total 472 discharged, as many as 300 personnel recovered at special Covid care centres set up by the police department.

Till Friday, 1,390 personnel had tested positive for Covid-19

and 16 succumbed to the virus.

20K MIGRANTS STILL ON WAITING LIST Maharashtra Police till Saturday night sent 11.56 lakh stranded migrants back to their home states in 792 Shramik trains and said around 20,000 on the waiting list are mostly from West Bengal. “30,000 migrants left on special trains on Sunday. We will require around 15 more trains to send back the remaining 20,000 migrants,” said Amitabh Gupta, principal secretary (special).

1.20 LAKH FIRS ACROSS STATE FOR VIOLATIONS From March 22 till Sunday morning, Maharashtra Police registered a total of 1,20,150 FIRS and arrested 23, 575 people for lockdown violations. Mumbai Police booked 46 people in 23 FIRS and arrested 31 on Saturday for violations.