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Mumbai cop succumbs to Covid-19

| @indiablooms | May 10, 2020, at 02:25 am

Mumbai/IBNS: An ASI of Mumbai Police, Sunil Dattatray Kalgutkar, who was attached with the Vinoba Bhave Nagar Police Station, has succumbed to COVID-19, officials said in a tweet late in the night.

"Mumbai Police regrets to inform about the unfortunate demise of ASI Sunil Dattatray Kalgutkar from Vinoba Bhave Nagar Police Station. ASI Kalgutkar had been battling Coronavirus," tweeted the police.

"We pray for his soul to rest in peace. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Kalgutkar family," it said.

The Covid-19 tally in India is nearing 60,000 with deaths clocking towards 2,000 as 36 states and union territories are set to enter into the last week of the lockdown announced by the government.

As per the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 59,662 people including 17,847 cured and 1,981 deceased have been infected with the contagion. 

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