Mumbai reported over 400 new Covid cases for the second consecutive day on Thursday, with 410 samples out of 9,691 turning positive and taking the positivity rate to 4.23 per cent. The Coronavrus claimed two lives during the day.

Of those who tested positive, 28 patients needed hospitalisation and 4 were put on oxygen support. The new cases pushed the city’s total tally to 1,126,150.  There are 2,235 active cases in Mumbai of which 217 are in hospitals with 12 patients on oxygen support. The casualties included an 80-year-old man and a 50-year-old female, both suffering from other ailments, taking the total Covid death count to 19,654. In the past 24 hours, 279 patients recovered after which the total recovery count reached 1,104,261.