Updated On: 05 May, 2022 07:44 AM IST | Mumbai | Agencies
The city’s COVID-19 test count increased to 1,69,22,334 as 7,035 tests were carried out during the day, over 1,400 less than the previous day

A beneficiary gets a jab at Nair hospital on Wednesday. Pic/Ashish Raje
Mumbai on Wednesday reported 117 new COVID-19 cases, its highest one-day tally since February 25, which took its overall count to 10,60,187, the civic body said. The death toll in the metropolis remained unchanged at 19,563 as nobody succumbed to the infection in the past 24 hours, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in its bulletin.
This is the second consecutive day that the country’s financial capital witnessed the number of cases running into three digits. On Tuesday, the city had logged 100 new cases. Last week also, Mumbai had reported more than 100 infection cases on April 26 and 27.