Thirteen security guards working for various government-owned entities asked to work throughout the lockdown in Mumbai and Thane have died of COVID-19. An NGO working for the welfare of security guards has demanded that their families be given a compensation of R50 lakh and those currently working for the government be given life insurance of the same amount.

In Mumbai, there are 1,73,040 security guards registered with the Security Guards Board for Mumbai and Thane district and are deployed at various government and civic agencies and hospitals. The NGO Siddharth Bahuudesshiya Samajik Sanstha has claimed that the guards were given only one mask and a 100-ml bottle of sanitiser.