After reporting more than 20,000 cases for several days, the state reported around 17,000 cases on Monday while the recovery rate touched 70 per cent yet again. While Mumbai continued to report more than 2,000 fresh cases, areas like Andheri East and Malad crossed 10,000 cases each.

State health department officials reported that among the fresh cases, Mumbai took the lead once again with 2,269 cases followed by Pune with 1,908 cases. Other districts with a high daily count were Nagpur with 1,171 cases, Ahmednagar with 1,096 and Nashik with 932.