A day after reporting more than 2,000 COVID cases, Mumbai saw 1,898 new cases on Friday. A total of 14,944 samples were tested and the test positivity rate stood at 13 per cent. Two patients also succumbed to the infection. With this, Mumbai’s COVID tally has reached 11,03,760 and death toll 19,591.

Of the 1,898 new patients, 96 needed hospitalisation with as many as 12 on oxygen support. At present, there are 13,257 active COVID patients in the city of whom 665 are taking treatment in hospitals including 77 on oxygen support while the rest are in home and institutional quarantine.