Active Covid circumstances in Maharashtra police pressure virtually triple in three weeks

While the Maharashtra authorities is contemplating a statewide lockdown which would require elevated police deployment, the variety of lively circumstances among the many 2 lakh-strong state police pressure has almost tripled during the last three weeks.
As Covid-19 circumstances began surging throughout India, particularly Maharashtra, from the primary week of March, the state police pressure additionally began reporting considerably increased numbers of every day circumstances.
As on Sunday, the two lakh-strong pressure of Maharashtra has reported a complete of 36,089 circumstances and 368 deaths whereas the variety of lively circumstances is 2,950. These numbers embrace each officers and constabulary workers. Three weeks in the past, on March 20, these numbers had been at 31,746 circumstances and 346 deaths whereas the variety of lively circumstances was at 1,046.
The second wave of the an infection has prompted police items throughout the state to take inventory of their Covid-safety preparedness and ensure that there may be strict adherence to varied customary working procedures that had been put in place on occasion.

A take a look at case numbers within the Maharashtra police pressure exhibits that round mid-February, the variety of every day Covid-19 circumstances throughout the state was round 20, which went as much as 60 to 80 per day round mid March. This quantity has climbed as much as a mean of 200 to 250 circumstances being reported every day.
“The Maharashtra government is discussing imposition of a statewide lockdown over a period seven to 14 days, considering the staggering number of cases that are being reported. If that happens, a large chunk of the police force will have be deployed on the ground to ensure that the lockdown is followed. Already, several major cities in the state have imposed stricter restrictions requiring respective police units to deploy additional force on the ground. But active cases in the state police are rapidly rising. As on Sunday, there are around 10,000 police personnel who are in quarantine, which is around 5 per cent of the total strength.” stated a senior officer from Maharashtra Police headquarters.

The officer added, “We are also observing many of the police officers and personnel who have received one and even two doses of vaccine are testing positive. But the severity of the symptoms is certainly low as compared to the earlier wave and it is significantly low among those who have received the vaccine.”

Maharashtra Police has until now reported 368 deaths of officers and constabulary workers, with 100 of them coming from the 44,000-strong Mumbai City Police. Other jurisdictions with increased variety of deaths are Thane metropolis (34), Nagpur metropolis (18), Pune metropolis (12), 10 every in Nashik Rural and Nashik City, eight in Jalgaon, seven Ahmednagar and and 6 deaths every in Mira Bhayandar, Pune Rural, Gadchiroli, Wardha, Gadchiroli, Nanded, Mumbai Railway Police and Sangli.
Another officer added, “At the level of individual unit commanders and centrally at the state police headquarters, the situation is being closely monitored and is being reviewed on a daily basis. Availability of hospital beds and supply of medicines is also being monitored.”

Since the start of the lockdown, the police pressure has been deployed in varied high-exposure duties like guarding the boundaries of districts, containment zones or at high-risk isolation wards, quarantine amenities or hospitals. Police had been additionally given extra duty of managing the big variety of migrant employees who had been transferring to their states, and in addition after they had been returning, along with all of the routine police work. Since the assorted unlock phases started whereas Covid-related deployment eased, the quantity of routine police work got here again to regular.