Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar came forward to help Nashik's frontline workers aka Nashik Police. After donating 1,000 smartwatches that track symptoms of the virus to the Mumbai police, the actor gave 500 such wristbands to the Nashik police after positive cases rise up in the city.

Vishwas Nangre Patil, Nashik police commissioner confirmed the news and said, "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."

The bands will be available in India in phases. Before making it available for the general public, the wrist bands will be given on an immediate basis to frontline workers. For the uninitiated, Akshay Kumar is the brand ambassador of a leading health brand who announced a major breakthrough in early COVID-19 detection through its wrist band with sensors to detect COVID-19 symptoms.

The Mumbai Police was the first organisation in the world enabled to remotely track and manage the health of its personnel with the preventive health platform, followed by Nashik. With no instant cure to coronavirus at the moment, an early detection of the virus helps boost chances of survival.