The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation's own lab began functioning on Tuesday after it received approval from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to conduct RT-PCR tests. The state-of-the-art lab has the capacity of testing 1,000 swab samples per day.

Navi Mumbai municipal commissioner Abhijeet Bangar had announced that the corporation would work on a war footing to set up its own lab. It has been set up in the NMMC-run Maasaheb Meenatai Thackeray Hospital.