Mumbai, Jun 3 (PTI) Mumbai on Wednesday reported 1,276 new COVID-19 cases and 49 deaths, taking the case count to 43,262 and the number of fatalities to 1,417, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.

A total of 259 patients were discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours from various COVID facilities, taking the tally of recovered cases to 17,472, it said.

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The number of active cases now stands at 24,373.

A total of 795 new suspected patients have been admitted in various hospitals.

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