For the first time since the second Covid-19 wave hit Mumbai, it recorded less than 200 cases on Monday. As per the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) report, while the city saw 190 infections, fatalities due to Covid fell to three.

It was on April 11, 2020, when the city recorded 189 cases after which the graph went up. After a marginal rise in the test positivity rate (TPR) on Sunday at 0.74 per cent, the city saw a dip and it was 0.71 per cent on Monday, the second wave’s lowest TPR. On Saturday, too, the TPR was 0.71 per cent. For the first time on July 29, Mumbai’s TPR had dipped below 1 per cent.