State continued to see a rise in deaths due to COVID-19 on Friday with 139 new casualties, including 54 in Mumbai, and the number of cases crossed 80,000. The city, however, recorded a comparatively lower single-day cases and the average growth rate of infections has marginally declined to 3.5 per cent from 3.62 per cent a day earlier.

State health department officials reported 2,436 new cases in the state, which took the total to 80,229, including 46,080 in the city that registered 1,149 new infections on Friday. Currently, 42,215 patients are being treated at various healthcare facilities across the state and 1,475 were discharged on Thursday after a full recovery.