Mumbai, Jul 9 (PTI) The tally of coronavirus positive patients in Mumbai rose to 88,795 on Thursday with the single-day spike of 1,282 cases, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.

As the virus claimed 68 more lives in the metropolis, its fatality count grew to 5,129, it said.

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The civic body said that the number of recovered patients in the city increased to 59,751 with 591 persons getting discharged from hospitals in the past 24-hours.

With this, the recovery rate of COVID-19 patients in the city district improved to 67 per cent, the BMC said in a release.

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The city has 23,915 active COVID-19 cases, it said.

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