After reporting more than 9,000 COVID-19 cases for the past two days, the state on Monday finally saw a drop in both novel Coronavirus infections and deaths. Pune, which had been reporting over 2,000 cases for the past few days, also saw a decline at 1,271 new infections.

Mumbai's daily COVID-19 infection count continued to hover around 1,000 and deaths reduced to 39 from 57 a day before. Of the 7,924 new cases the state recorded on Monday, 1,021 were from the city. Thane, Navi Mumbai and Kalyan each had more than 300 cases.