Mumbai logs 100 new Covid-19 cases, no death; active tally at 688

Mumbai on Thursday reported 100 new coronavirus cases, taking the overall tally to 11,50,133, while no fresh death linked to the infection was registered in the city, the local civic body said.

The death toll remained unchanged at 19,731. The metropolis has recorded COVID-19 cases in three digits for the second day in a row. A day ago, the city had logged 116 COVID-19 cases and one fatality caused by the viral infection. The new COVID-19 cases were detected after 7,350 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, pushing up their cumulative count to 1,83,02,368, said the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in a bulletin. On Wednesday, 8,896 coronavirus tests were conducted in the financial capital. Mumbai's tally of recuperated cases rose to 11,29,714 after 98 more patients recovered from the respiratory illness, said the bulletin. The city has a coronavirus recovery rate of 98.2 per cent and is left with 688 active cases.

Of the 100 new COVID-19 cases, only three patients ..