The numbers in the state continued to climb to more than 5,000 cases on Tuesday taking its total tally up to 17.89 lakh cases while the number of COVID-related fatalities maintained a low count of 30 deaths. The city's daily count similarly rose again with more than 900 fresh cases even as the number of COVID-related casualties remained less than 20.

State health department officials reported that among the fresh cases, Mumbai took the lead with 939 cases followed by Pune with 649 cases and Nagpur with 389 cases. In the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, while Thane had 200 new cases, Kalyan Dombivali had 182 cases and all other districts had less than 150 cases each.