Surat: One more employee of Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) died of Covid-19 on Tuesday taking the total deaths from Covid in the civic body itself to eight in this round of the pandemic.
According to sources,
Sabir Mansur,
56, who was a section officer at civic body’s Varachha zone office,
succumbed to the infection on Tuesday. “Till now, 32 SMC employees have died of Covid-19 since the coronavirus pandemic began last year. In 2020, 24 employees had died while eight employees died in the recent infection wave,” said an official.
Last week, Hitendra Suthar, an executive engineer with the civic body, breathed his last at a private hospital.
SMC had lost its first Covid-19 warrior Girish Bhadarka, a sanitary sub inspector working in leprosy department on July 7, 2020. He had tested positive for Covid-19 on July 5 and succumbed two days later.
Those who succumbed to the virus from the civic body included executive engineer, junior engineer, sanitary inspectors, sanitary sub inspectors, a sub officer (fire), clerks, assistant accountant, safai workers, beldars and a peon among others.
“There are 22,000 employees in the civic body. Till now, over 1,550 SMC employees have tested positive for the coronavirus so far,” an official added.