The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation has beefed up its measures against COVID-19 as cases continue to rise. Besides the antigen testing that was started last week, the NMMC has started setting up two laboratories for COVID-19 tests and adding more beds, and is working on strategies for effective contact tracing and containment.

Since the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus, the NMMC has been sending the swab samples of its residents for testing either to Mumbai or private laboratories, which takes anywhere between three to five days. While the antigen testing was rolled out last week reducing the timing to 30 minutes, the corporation has also ordered machineries to set up two labs that will test 300 samples each in a day. The labs will be ready in the next 15 days.