nCov kills two more SMC employees

Surat: Two more employees of the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) succumbed to Covid-19 on Monday.

This included a sanitary inspector Nitin Modi (57) and senior clerk Anil Parmar (53).

Modi, working with the Vector Borne Disease Control (VBDC) department. He is survived by a wife and two children — a son and a daughter.

“He was under treatment at a private hospital for the last seven days. In fact, he talked to his colleagues through video calling on Monday. He could not speak but waved his hands apparently an indication of his deteriorating health,” said an SMC official.

The second victim, Parmar was also working in the VBDC department as a senior clerk. He died on Monday morning.

On August 6, a sanitary inspector Tushar Shah (53) posted at the Khatodara ward succumbed to Covid-19. Since May 19, about 15 employees of the SMC have died due to Covid-19. TNN