Despite a fewer number of tests over the weekend, the city reported more than 1,000 fresh cases on Monday. Mumbai’s daily count last Monday was about 855 cases. The city reported four deaths while the state saw 22 and recorded more than 8,000 cases.

The trend of over 1,000 cases continues with Mumbai recording 1,008 fresh infections after conducting 17,849 tests on Sunday with a test positivity rate (TPR) of 5.6 per cent. In the last week, an average of 21,000 tests were conducted each day and the TPR was approximately 5.5 per cent. The TPR was below 3 per cent in the first week of February. Meanwhile, 4,380 patients in the city recovered since Friday, which is almost the same as the number of new cases reported over the same period of time. Of the four deaths reported in Mumbai, three patients had comorbidities and all four were above 60 years of age.