For the fourth time in February, the city registered over 1,000 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday. With Amravati, Pune and Nagpur continuing to report a significant rise in new infections, the state’s tally also remained on the higher side, and the number of deaths also increased slightly to 62, including five in Mumbai.

Mumbai had reported 1,167 cases on Wednesday, 1,145 on Thursday and 1,034 on Friday. It saw a drop below 1,000 on Saturday, but numbers jumped again a day later with 1,051 new cases.