Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has said that COVID-19 mitigation efforts in Mumbai have drawn global attention. He was addressing the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials via video conferencing yesterday. Mr Thackeray praised the staffers working hard to combat COVID-19. He instructed BMC officials to remain to bring down the graph of COVID-19 cases in the city as a second wave of the disease is being predicted world over.<br />''<br />''Maharashtra Chief Minister has made the remarks that the entire world's attention is towards densely- populated Mumbai. He said the administration has contained the spread of novel coronavirus. Interacting with Mumbai civic body officials, the CM stated that the World Health Organisation has taken note of containment of coronavirus in Mumbai, while the 'Washington Post', too, has praised the efforts taken to tackle COVID-19 in the metropolis. He however stated that  the test is still not over and asked all machineries to be to bring the graph of cases down and not remain off-guard. The Chief Minister instructed the officials to  combat the outbreak of monsoon-related diseases. <br />''<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Meanwhile,the BMC has informed that COVID-19 patient recovery rate has improved further to 71 per cent this week and the average doubling rate of COVID-19 cases in the past seven days  rose to 57 days.</span><br />