Mumbai's COVID-19 tally rose to 2,07,494 with the addition of 2,352 new cases, while 43 fresh deaths took the toll to 8,969, the city civic body said.
On Wednesday, Mumbai had witnessed the highest-ever single day spike of 2,654 COVID-19 cases.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)'s daily update said the number of recovered cases in Mumbai rose to 1,70,678 with 1,410 more patients discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours.
According to the BMC, Mumbai'srecovery rate of COVID-19 patients stood at 82 per cent, whereas the city has 27,435 active cases.
The financial capital has an average growth rate of 1.06 per cent and the city's average doubling rate is 66 days, the civic body stated.
The BMC has conducted 11.29 lakh COVID-19 tests so far.
As per the civic body's report, at present Mumbai has 10,372 sealed buildings and 672 containment zones in slums and 'chawls' (old style tenements).
The civic body seals a building or declares containment zones on finding one or more COVID-19 patients there.
Here is the list of containment zones:
(With inputs from PTI)
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