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COVID-19: Mumbai conducted 23.70 lakh tests last year, 16,000 on Friday
Updated On: 03 January, 2021 03:54 PM IST | Mumbai | A Correspondent
After recording more than 700 cases over the past two days, Mumbai saw a slight dip on Friday

Antigen tests being conducted at Dadar station on Friday. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi
After recording more than 700 cases over the past two days, Mumbai saw a slight dip on Friday. While 16,000 COVID-19 tests were conducted, the city saw 631 new infections. At the same time, the state recorded 3,524 cases and 59 deaths over the past 24 hours.
Till now, the city has conducted about 23,70,594 lakh tests for detection of Coronavirus, of which 50 per cent were carried out between October and December. About 11,29,869 RT-PCR and antigen tests were carried out till September. Till now the city has reported a total of 2.94 lakh cases and its cumulative test positivity rate is slightly over 10 per cent.
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