After 18 security personnel posted in Malegaon tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, taking the city's toll to 750, Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar extended his support to the city's frontline workers. After donating 1,000 GoQii smartwatches that track symptoms of the virus to the Mumbai police, the actor gave 500 to the Nashik police in the wake of the steep rise in new cases.

Vishwas Nangre Patil, Nashik police commissioner, informs mid-day, "We are grateful to Mr Kumar for donating 500 smart watches, which will be utilised by our frontline workers who are above 45 years of age. The data of their body temperature, heart rate and blood pressure will be collected on the COVID dashboard, which is centrally monitored by the police force. The health and wellness dashboards, which records BMI and footsteps will also be tracked constantly."