Mumbai on Friday recorded 159 new cases of novel Coronavirus and one casualty due to the infection, an official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. With this, the tally of cases rose to 11,48,799, while the toll stood at 19,723, he said. There has been a slight increase in the daily cases, as the city had on Thursday reported 138 infections and a single casualty.

As per a bulletin issued by the civic body, at least 8,951 swab samples were tested in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of tests conducted so far to 1,82,14,897. The count of recoveries has reached 11,27,859 after 250 patients recovered and were discharged from hospitals during the day, it stated.