Mumbai on Tuesday reported 122 Covid-19 cases, a steep rise from the 63 cases detected a day earlier, and the seventh time the daily addition to the tally was above the 100-mark this month, a civic official said. So far, 10,40,507 persons have been discharged post recovery, including 100 during the day, leaving the city with an active caseload of 844, the official said.

Of the new cases, only two required hospitalisation, though they are not in need of oxygen support, the official said, adding that just 25 of the 25,249 hospital beds earmarked for Covid-19 treatment were currently occupied. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation data showed the positivity rate was 0.015 per cent, the recovery rate was 98 per cent, while the overall growth rate of cases between May 3 and 9 stood at 0.010 per cent.