NYPD Chief of Transportation William T. Morris, who is among the department’s top brass, is in the hospital on life support with COVID-19, police sources informed The Post.<\/p>\n

Morris, 61, a three-star chief, supervises traffic and highway patrol.<\/p>\n

Another high-ranking officer, Transit Bureau Chief Edward Delatorre, fell ill with the virus last month but has actually recovered.<\/p>\n

Delatorre and Morris had contact with each other on March 13 at Bellevue Healthcare Facility in Manhattan after a transit police officer shot herself dead.<\/p>\n

As of Monday, 4,435 NYPD members had checked positive for COVID-19 2,342 had returned to work after recovering. A complete 30 NYPD employees have passed away due to coronavirus-related diseases.<\/p>\n

Previous Chief of Transit Joseph Fox also fell ill with coronavirus but made it through.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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April 21, 2020 | 1:13pm | Updated April 21, 2020 | 2:35pm NYPD Chief of Transportation William T. Morris, who is among the department\u2019s top brass, is in the hospital on life support with COVID-19, police sources told The Post. Morris, 61, a three-star chief, oversees traffic and highway patrol. Another high-ranking officer, Transit Bureau…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[375,1670],"class_list":{"0":"post-20945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-chief","9":"tag-transportation"},"yoast_head":"\n