64 Maharashtra cops found Coronavirus positive and 34 of them are from Mumbai

• Twelve police officers and 52 constables in Maharashtra tested positive to Coronavirus.
  
• Of these, 34 policemen are from Mumbai— which also accounts for the maximum coronavirus patients in Maharashtra.
  
• Earlier, a woman police constable posted at 'Varsha', the official residence of Maharashtra Chief Minister, tested positive for Coronavirus on Tuesday (April 21).

Around 64 Maharashtra policemen have been found Coronavirus positive, today (April 22). It includes 12 officers and 52 constables.

Of these, 34 policemen are from Mumbai— which also accounts for the maximum coronavirus patients in Maharashtra.

Earlier, a woman police constable posted at 'Varsha', the official residence of Maharashtra Chief Minister, tested positive for Coronavirus on Tuesday (April 21), a senior official said.

The Varsha bungalow in south Mumbai is currently unoccupied as Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray lives at his family residence in suburban Bandra.

"A woman constable has tested positive for COVID-19. We have hospitalised her while contact-tracing is going on," said a senior Indian Administrative Service official.

A male police constable deployed at 'Sagar', official residence of Devendra Fadnavis the former CM of the state, also tested positive for COVID-19, said a senior official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

"He showed some symptoms on April 12 and was admitted to a hospital on April 14. His test report has come out positive. We have removed all other police officials posted there and quarantined them," the BMC official said.

Maharashtra recorded a shocking jump of 552 new COVID-19 positive cases today with total cases at 5,218. As many as 19 people also died today in the state according to the latest data from the Ministry of Health.This has taken up the state's total fatalities from 232 to 251.

Of the 19 deaths, 12 were recorded in Mumbai, taking the city's total to 151.

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