Mumbai: The death toll from the novel coronavirus in Mumbai reached 100, while the tally of positive cases crossed the 1,500-mark, the city civic body said on Monday, indicating a grim situation in the metropolis.
According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), with 150 more persons testing positive in the last 24 hours, the coronavirus case count jumped to 1,549 in the financial capital.
Nine more COVID-19 patients succumbed during the same period, taking the death toll in the epicentre of the disease in Mumbai to 100, a BMC release said.
The civic body said the total number of recovered patients reached 141 with 43 more people discharged from hospitals. The BMC claimed that seven out of the nine deaths were due to