With more and more police officers testing positive for COVID-19, Health Minister Rajesh Tope had appealed for conducting free health check-ups and Coronavirus tests of the cops on May 31. Soon after, Sai Dham Foundation, an NGO based in Mumbai, responded to it and started the check-ups free of cost from June 7. Till date, 5,000 cops from 47 police stations across the city have undergone health check-ups with them. Of them, 50 were tested positive for COVID-19.

Till now, about 1,200 police officers on duty across the state have contracted the virus, while more than 82 of them have died due to the infection.