MUMBAI : Despite a 60-day-long lockdown, COVID-19 cases continued to rise unabated in Mumbai, where the tally crossed the 25,000-mark on Thursday with the addition of 1,382 new infections, while 41 more patients succumbed to the infection, the city civic body said.
According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC , with 1,382 new cases, the tally jumped to 25,317 in the city. It said samples of 142 of these 1,382 cases tested positive at private labsbetween May 18-19.
In a release, the civic body said the toll in the city rose to 882 with 41 more patients dying due to the infection. The BMC said with the discharge of 285 more patients from city hospitals, the number of people who have recovered from the disease has gone up to
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