Nearly 200 more NYPD cops tested positive for the coronavirus in less than a day — causing the number of infected department members to soar above 550, officials said Friday.
According to a spokesman for the NYPD, 486 uniformed officers and 71 civilian employees have now contracted COVID-19.
Late Thursday, 294 cops and 57 civilians were positive.
Friday’s figures — the largest daily increase in confirmed cases on the force — come a day after the NYPD lost its first employee to the coronavirus, Dennis Dickson, 62, a civilian cleaner at police HQ, and Deputy Commissioner John Miller was hospitalized in critical condition with severe COVID-19 symptoms.
The potentially deadly virus has been sweeping through the department over the past week, leaving the NYPD without at least 11 percent of its patrol officers, who called out sick. As of Thursday morning, 3,737 cops, from officers to above captains, were out ill.
The number of cops who were out sick Friday was not immediately known.
