mumbaiUpdated: Aug 20, 2020 14:26 ISTTwo police officers from the city police force succumbed to Covid-19 on Thursday, taking Mumbai police’s pandemic fatalities to 62. “Tambe had some co-morbidities and succumbed to the virus during treatment,” confirmed additional commissioner of police (East region), Lakhmi Gautam. Thirty-five-year-old police sub-inspector Vinayak Babar from Deonar police station died of the virus early in the morning. He was admitted to Dr DY Patil hospital in Nerul, Navi Mumbai, for treatment. In Maharashtra, till date, 12,877 policemen from various units have tested positive for Covid-19 and 131 of them have succumbed to the disease.

Source: Hindustan Times August 20, 2020 08:57 UTC