A Dedicated wellness team set up to keep a check on the health of police officers and their family members in Navi Mumbai seems to have helped the force in reducing the active COVID-19 cases among them from 200 in September to 47 as of October 19.

Like the other police forces in the state, even the Navi Mumbai cops were badly affected by the pandemic and almost 25 per cent of the force was infected by COVID-19. Till now, 1,018 cops and 585 family members have tested positive for the infection. Of these, 10 cops and three family members have succumbed to the disease.