Actor Akshay Kumar has extended his support to Nashik’s frontline workers. After donating 1,000 smartwatches that track symptoms of the novel Coronavirus to the Mumbai Police, the actor has now given 500 smartwatches to the Nashik Police after positive cases rise up in the city.

Vishwas Nangre Patil, the Nashik Police commissioner Vishwas Nangre Patil thanked the actor for his timely help and said, "We are grateful to Mr. Kumar for donating 500 smartwatches, which will be utilized 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."

Distribution of #Wristband with sensors to detect COVID-19 Symptoms to #NashikCityPolice team by the hands of Hon. CP Vishwas Nangre Patil Sir. Sponsored by Veteran Film actor @akshaykumar and Datar Cancer Genetics Ltd. @DGPMaharashtra @CMOMaharashtra https://t.co/DGlfawqixW

— Nashik City Police (@nashikpolice) May 15, 2020

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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. To curb the rapid spread of the virus, governments across the world are making sure temperature checks are mandatory at every public place. Temperature checks are an important tool that can be effective at many levels - pre-detection phase, an increase in body temperature, is the first symptom of being affected by the virus and post-detection. 

On the work front, Akshay has several interesting films in the pipeline. He will be seen in Rohit Shetty's Sooryavanshi alongside Katrina Kaif, Farhan Samji's Bachchan Pandey, Raghava Lawrence's Laxmmi Bomb and Ranjit M Tewari's Bell Bottom.