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Mumbai is divided into 12 police zones and the city police are authorised to collect a fine of Rs 200 from people not wearing masks as mandated under COVID-19 norms. He said Singh recently asked all senior inspectors to improve the performance of their respective police stations and achieve the zonal target of 1000 such cases per day. The Mumbai police are making efforts to increase the awareness among citizens about containing the spread of COVID-19 city police spokesperson S Chaitanya said. Since April 18 last year 10490 people were penalised for not wearing masks in public places he added. On Tuesday Mumbai reported 849 new cases of COVID-19 raising the tally to 327619..