Covid
Kolkata Police report second Covid-19 fatality in single day, toll now 5
Kolkata/IBNS: The Kolkata Police reported its second death due to Covid-19 within 24 hours on Friday, taking the total number of fatalities in the city police to five, reports said on Saturday.
According to reports, Kolkata Police's constable Krishna Kanta Burman posted at Hastings Police Station under South Division succumbed to Covid-19 in a city hospital on Friday night.
We deeply mourn the untimely demise of Constable Krishna Kanta Burman, who was posted in Hastings PS.
— Kolkata Police (@KolkataPolice) July 25, 2020
He was affected with #COVID19 and was at the forefront of our #FightAgainstCorona.#SaluteBraveheart#RIP@CPKolkata pic.twitter.com/ksHPU4j7Gy
"We deeply mourn the untimely demise of Constable Krishna Kanta Burman, who was posted in Hastings PS. He was affected with Covid-19 and was at the forefront of our Fight Against Corona," Kolkata Police posted on Twitter.
Earlier on Friday morning, Officer-in-Charge of Kolkata Traffic Police's Equipment Cell, Abhigyan Mukherjee, succumbed to Novel Coronavirus at a Covid hospital here while the city police reported that 41 of its personnel had tested Covid-19 positive in the past 24 hours.
Till date, 914 Kolkata Police personnel have tested positive for the deadly virus while 600 of them have recovered from the infection.
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