The tally in Mumbai rose to 61,501 on Wednesday, with 1,359 fresh cases of COVID-19. Meanwhile, 77 fresh deaths took the toll to 3,242, according to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), saying 53 patients had co-morbidities.
A BMC release said 298 patients were discharged from hospitals within the past 24 hours, taking the count of recoveries to 31,338.
According to the civic body, the count of active patients within the city stood at 26,921, while 716 new suspected coronavirus patients were admitted in hospitals.
Meanwhile, the surge in the number of sealed buildings, during which one or more COVID-19 patients are found, within the city has gone past the 5,000-mark.
At present, the town has 5,205 such sealed buildings, consistent with the BMC release.
The civic body said the town, The worst-hit by the pandemic in Maharashtra, has 834 containment zones, largely in slums and chawls.
According to the BMC, it's done 2,69,608 COVID-19 tests so far.
It said the general rate of growth of the disease within the city is 2.43% and in three wards -- namely R-Central, R-North, and R-South - the expansion rate is over 4%.

The Union Government today said that the recovery rate of Coronavirus reached 52.95% within the country and overall 1,94325 people affected are cured thus far. During the last 24 hours, 7, 390 people have recovered from COVID-19. Presently, the overall count of active COVID-19 cases within the country is 1,60, 384.

The Health and Family Welfare Ministry said that a total of 12,881 fresh cases of COVID-19 are reported within the last 24 hours taking the entire number of cases to 3, 66, 946. At some point, 334 deaths are reported taking the nationwide toll to 12, 237. With this, the case death rate stands at 3.33% within the country.
Meanwhile, the Indian Council of Medical Research, ICMR said that 1, 65, 412 tests of COVID-19 were conducted by various laboratories within the country within the last 24 hours. This is thus far the highest number of tests conducted by the laboratories during a single day. So far, 62,49668 tests are conducted.
ICMR is continuously ramping up its testing facilities for COVID-19 by giving approval to government and personal laboratories. As of now, total of 953 laboratories across India are given the approval to conduct the test that has 699 government laboratories and 254 private laboratory' chains.