Daily COVID-19 tally continues to climb in both the state and the city. Fresh number of cases touched 7,000 in Maharashtra on Sunday, and is inching closer to 1,000 in Mumbai. Seeing the upward trend, the government and the civic corporations have started to strictly impose COVID-19 precautionary measures.

The state on Sunday recorded 6,971 new cases of novel Coronavirus, with 921 of them from the city. In the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, Thane, Navi Mumbai and Kalyan-Dombivli corporations, too, have been seeing a surge. Thane Municipal Corporation reported 177 new cases, Navi Mumbai 123 and Kalyan-Dombivli 150.