In the first ten days of June, the city has reported almost double the number of cases it had reported in entire May.
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Mumbai on Friday reported 1,956 Covid-19 cases and zero deaths. The city added 254 cases in the past 24 hours, an increase of nearly 15 per cent in infections. This is the highest daily rise in infections since January 23, a BMC official said. It is also the fourth day in a row that Mumbai has registered over 1,000 cases.
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On June 9, the city had reported 1,702 cases and one fatality. Meanwhile, Maharashtra has logged 3,081 cases, which is the highest in nearly four months. The state had recorded 2,813 new cases and one death on June 9. The number of active cases in Maharashtra now stands at 13,329.
The case tally in India's financial capital rose to 10,77,199 and the death toll stood unchanged at 19,570. The positivity rate, or cases detected per 100 tests, also went above the 10 per cent mark after a long time. It went up to 12.74 per cent from 9.64 per cent on Thursday.
The recovery count increased by 763 in the last 24 hours to reach 10,48,438, a BMC official said. In the first ten days of June, the city has reported almost double the number of cases it had reported in entire May. Between June 1 to 10, the metropolis reported 11,397 COVID-19 cases, while in May it had added only 5,979 cases. The city also reported four deaths in the first 10 days of June against three deaths in entire May.
On Friday, 15,346 COVID-19 test were conducted in Mumbai, up from 17,648 tests carried out the previous day, taking the total number of tests so far to 1,72,60,172.
Out of 1,956 new patients, 1,873 were asymptomatic and 83 symptomatic patients have been admitted in hospitals. Of these, only three patients are on oxygen support, the BMC said. Of the 24,943 hospital beds for COVID-19 patients in the city, only 369 beds are occupied.
After the discharge of 763 recovered patients in the last 24 hours, the number of recovered patients climbed to 10, 48,438.
With inputs from PTI
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