Following a dip in COVID-19 cases, the city on Saturday, once again reported more than thousand cases and 48 deaths. Across Maharashtra, 12,614 new cases were reported with 322 deaths. The MMR and Pune region contributed more than 50 per cent of these cases.

After reconciliation of the data till July 31 in the state, entries of 2,088 patients were removed from the cumulative number of Mumbai and 594 patients from the state. "The exercise of reconciliation of patients' data has been completed and more than 2,000 patients, either duplicated or from outside of Mumbai, were removed from the cumulative numbers," said an official from the BMC.