Covid-19: 47 employees of Coal India's Jharkhand arm dead

Many other personnel and their families are infected and they are currently battling for recovery, he said, reported Mint.

"Mining activities of Central Coalfields Ltd, a Jharkhand based subsidiary of Coal India, are going on round the clock but around 47 employees of CCL have lost their lives while serving the nation during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic," CCL officials said, according to the report.

"Despite following the protocol of Covid-19 issued by the government from time to time, many executives as well as non-executives, have been affected from the COVID-19 infection. Altogether about 47 employees have lost their lives due to the deadly virus and many are undergoing treatment. It is not only the employees of CCL are affected but there are cases in which many family members too became affected and few of them died due to the Covid-19," the official added.

Around 2,000 beds, including ICU, isolation and covid care beds with oxygen support, have been set up to treat sick employees, CCL has said.

CCL operates mines in Chatra, Latehar, Ramgarh, Hazaribag, Bokaro, Ranchi, Giridih and Palamu districts of Jharkhand, which include 62 operative mines, 40 of them opencast.

The organisation has about 37,000 workers.