SHARES According to reports, in April, a total of 68 cops from the Maharashtra Police department died of COVID-19 as the state saw the pandemic’s second wave. The toll in April assumes significance as an equal number of cops had succumbed to the virus in the past five months. In the past four days, total 20 cops died of coronavirus. Of these, four were from Mumbai, three from Ahmednagar, one each from the Special Investigation Department (SID) Mumbai, Thane, Thane rural, Pune city, Pune rural, Pune railway, Nashik rural, Osmanabad, Beed, Hingoli, Chandrapur, Gadchiroli and Gondia. Confirming the development, Sanjeev Singhal, additional director general (ADG), administration, Maharashtra Police mentioned that it was observed that vaccination has been effective in decreasing the infection’s impact on our personnel. Hence, the department is trying their best to get all police personnel vaccinated as soon as possible. Excluding Mumbai, of 1.5 lakh people in our force, more than 1.3 lakh have got the first dose. Over 74,000 have taken the second dose, added the police official.