Mumbai did not record any death linked to Covid-19 for the second consecutive day on Wednesday, while cases remained above 200, the BMC said. The city’s test positivity rate (TPR) stands at 0.83 per cent. With the new cases, the infection tally in the metropolis rose to 10,54,732, while the death toll remained unchanged at 16,685, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in its bulletin. 

In the last 24 hours, 30,371 Covid-19 tests, around 5,000 more as compared to the previous day, were carried out in the city and 255 people tested positive. On Tuesday, the city had reported 235 new cases. The metropolis does not have any sealed building and containment zones for the seventh consecutive day. As 439 more patients recovered and got discharge during the day, the recovery count grew to 10,33,071 and the city’s rate of recovery is 98 per cent, the health bulletin said.