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Covid-19 test positivity rate drops below 10% in Mumbai
asymptomatic, and the number of vacant beds available in city hospitals has been increased to 5,725 on Friday afternoon, indicating a drop in fresh admissions.According to the data provided by Chahal, who took charge of the BMC during the pandemic last year, Mumbai had a TPR of 20.85 per cent at the beginning of April.The highest positivity rate during the month was 27.94 per cent, reported on April 4, when 11,573 people had tested positive after 51,313 samples were examined.The data suggested that the test positivity rate started slipping below 20 per cent from April 19.Earlier this week, Dr Shashank Joshi, a member of the Maharashtra government's COVID-19 task force, had said Mumbai may have turned the corner in its fight against the