Constable is third Mumbai cop to die of coronavirus; all were in their 50s

A 57-year-old head constable on Monday became the third Mumbai Police personnel to die of the coronavirus since Saturday, an official said. 

The head constable was undergoing treatment at KEM Hospital in Parel after several state-run facilities refused to admit him, another official claimed. He was attached with the Kurla traffic division.

"He had first gone to Rajawadi Hospital in Ghatkopar on Friday after he felt feverish. Doctors there asked him to go to Kasturba Hospital, the main centre for communicable diseases. He was denied admission there and he then went to Nair Hospital which asked him to go to