Mumbai witnessed a drop in daily Covid-19 cases on Thursday, however, the number of fatalities from the disease and the test positivity rate (TPR) increased. The BMC reported 5,707 cases, 12 deaths and a TPR of 10.72 per cent. The state-wide tally rose marginally to 46,197.

According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) report on Thursday, around 84 per cent of the patients who turned positive on Thursday were asymptomatic. Of the 5,707 confirmed infected people, 550 were hospitalised and 79 of them have been assigned the oxygen bed.