While the city crossed the 90,000 COVID-19 cases mark with more than 1,300 fresh cases on Friday, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) reported the death of 275 COVID-19 patients, who according to a state-appointed death committee, did not die due to the infection. Both the civic body and the committee have said that other causes led to the patients' death. Meanwhile, the state recorded an all-time high of 7,862 fresh cases and 226 COVID-related deaths.

State health department officials said that the 275 non-COVID deaths that the BMC added dated back to the period from April to June. While civic health officials confirmed that these patients had tested positive for COVID-19, when contacted, Additional Municipal Commissioner, Suresh Kakani said, "The state-appointed death audit committee has declared these deaths as non-COVID and we have uploaded the data on the website as per the ICMR guidelines. We are not aware of the causes of the deaths as we are yet to receive the report from the committee."