Mumbai recorded a huge spike in the number of COVID cases in the last 24 hours. According to the Maharashtra health department, the city recorded 1,167 new cases of infection while the number stood at 8,807 for the state.

This comes after two days of fall in numbers in both Mumbai and Maharashtra. On Tuesday, 643 fresh COVID cases were recorded in Mumbai and 6,218 in the state.

As many as 2,772 people were discharged, taking the total number of recoveries in the state to 2,008,623, and 51 people died of the disease in 24 hours, taking the death toll to 51,857, the health department said.

The COVID-19 situation in Maharashtra has been an area of concern for the Centre and various other states which have imposed travel restrictions on people coming from there.

The sudden spike in daily cases in Maharashtra began in February. Amravati, one of the districts that are contributing the highest to the increase, reported 9,069 COVID-19 cases only in February. Out of this 4,728 were detected since February 17.

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