Mumbai on Friday reported as many as 7,221 new COVID-19 cases taking the total infection tally to 616221 and the active tally to 81,538.
The death toll, meanwhile, rose to 12,648 as 72 people succumbed to the diseases in the last 24 hours, the health bulletin said.On a positive note, the city saw 9,541 people recovering from the disease in the same time span, which is higher than the number of infections.The current recovery rate in Mumbai is 84% while the growth rate was 1.31%, it said.According to the BMC, Mumbai has 122 containment zones in slums and chawls (old row tenements), while the number of sealed buildings in the city stood at 1,211.With 41,826 samples being examined in the last 24 hours, the number of tests in Mumbai went up to.