<span style="color: #222222;">Mumbai's Municipal Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal said there is "no second wave" of COVID-19 in the city. He said the infections are rising due to increased testing.<br />''<br />''Speaking at an event in Mumbai yesterday Mr Chahal said the civic body took a conscious call of more than doubling the testing.  <br />''<br />''Municipal Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal said the increased number of Covid cases are due to the increased testing. He said  Mumbai is now witnessing over 15,000 tests a day against the earlier 7,000.<br />''<br />''Earlier, there used to be 1,100 positive patients among 7,000 tests carried out per day, which has now gone up to around 2,000 positive patients with the testing more than doubling. He said the BMC is planning to take the number of tests to over 20,000 a day.<br />''<br />''Chahal said even if the tests were to go up to 32,000 a day, which will take the daily spike in cases to nearly 4,000, the health infrastructure will still be able to cope up. He said the death rate presently stands at over 4.5 per cent which the city wants to bring down to 2.2 per cent. He also said the BMC is in talks with gyms and restaurant owners, and looking to allow them to reopen with one-third patrons. </span><br />