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Mumbai on Wednesday reported 1,504 fresh COVID-19 cases and three fatalities, which raised the tally to 11,11,227 and the death toll to 19,609, the city civic body said.
A day before, Mumbai had reported 1,290 cases and two fatalities.
The city is now left with 11,844 active cases.
All the three patients who succumbed to the coronavirus infection were suffering from comorbidities, the BMC bulletin said.
With 14,129 more COVID-19 tests, the number of samples tested so far in Mumbai went up to 1,75,13,726.
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A total of 10,79,774 patients have recovered so far from the infection in Mumbai including 1,645 in the last 24 hours, it said.
The recovery rate is 97 per cent.
As per the bulletin, 1,444 of the 1,504 fresh cases were asymptomatic, while only 60 symptomatic patients were hospitalised and 18 of them put on the oxygen support.
Of the total 24,773 hospital beds earmarked for COVID-19 patients, 681 remained occupied and only 70 patients are on the oxygen support.
The growth rate of COVID-19 cases in Mumbai stood at 0.143 per cent during June 22-28 and the doubling rate of cases is 461 days.
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