Mumbai reported 1,803 new Covid cases on Sunday, with the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) contributing about 90 per cent of the state’s 2,946 fresh infections. The city saw two deaths due to Coronavirus, taking Covid fatalities to seven in the past 12 days. Both the victims were below the age of 40 and had no known comorbidities.

While April and March each had recorded four deaths, three patients succumbed to the respiratory disease in May. Numbers shared by BMC showed 15,922 tests were conducted during the day. City test positivity rate or TPR stood at 11.3 per cent. In the third wave, the highest TPR recorded in Mumbai was 29.9 per cent on January 06. In March and April, TPR had remained below 1 per cent.