The daily tally of confirmed novel Coronavirus infections dropped slightly across the state, where officials on Friday registered 3,145 new ones.

Despite a higher number of COVID-19 tests, Mumbai recorded 574 new cases after registering more than 600 cases the past two days. The civic officials conducted 16,136 COVID-19 tests on Friday, against the daily average of about 13,000 till a few days back. The test positivity rate was recorded at 3.6 per cent, way below the June average of 18 per cent.