Mumbai did not record any fresh death linked to Covid-19 for the third day in a row on Thursday, while 259 more people tested positive for the infection and the active tally dropped below the 2,000-mark, the BMC said. The BMC said 235 out of the 259 new patients, or around 91 per cent of the total, were asymptomatic. In the last 24 hours, only 20 patients were hospitalised and seven put on oxygen support, the bulletin said.

With this, the overall tally of coronavirus infections jumped to 10,54,991, while the death toll remained unchanged at 16,685, a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) bulletin said. For the fourth consecutive day, the financial capital has registered less than 300 new Covid-19 cases. However, the daily cases have gone up on all these days compared to the previous day. On Wednesday, the city had recorded 255 cases.