Four more BEST staffers die due to COVID, toll rises to 54

The toll reaches 54 with four more BEST staffers admitted to COVID-19 hospitals have died.

Meanwhile, Ashok Lohar, one of the bus conductors, finally got discharged from a Covid hospital in Bhayander after a 52-day stay, said, officials.

BEST unions, though, claimed the death toll was over 115 and demanded a "white paper" with details of all those who have died. BEST chief medical officer Anil Kumar Singal said, "We have conducted a proper scrutiny before declaring official figures for the deaths." He said the department had launched Operation Zero- zero deaths and zero active cases. "Our active cases in hospitals are 34 now and we want to bring them down to zero," he said, adding till Friday, 2,726 of 2,858 staffers (95%) had recovered.