The state had more than 10,500 new cases on Wednesday as the total COVID-19 count now stands at 15.5 lakh cases. In Mumbai, after a gap of a couple of days, the daily count crossed the 2,000-cases mark yet again along with another 48 COVID-related fatalities as the city's total death toll crossed the 9,500-mark.

State health department officials reported that among the fresh cases, Mumbai continued to lead with 2,211 cases followed by Pune with 1,063 and Nagpur with 665. In MMR, while Thane had 496 new cases, Kalyan-Dombivli had 293 and all other districts had less than 250 cases each.