MUMBAI: Four more BEST staffers admitted to
Covid-19 hospitals have died, taking the toll to 54 till Friday. 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.