Mumbai: Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal on Friday directed all the hospitals in the city to report covid-19 related deaths within 48 hours, and set a deadline of 29 June for reporting earlier fatalities.The commissioner held a meeting with hospital deans, medical experts and senior health department officials through video conference, said a press statement from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).Chahal warned of stringent action under the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, if hospitals failed to comply, the BMC said.This comes a week after the BMC had issued notice to all hospitals asking them to adhere to the 48-hour timeline of reporting deaths due to Covid-19.Maharashtra reconciled death figures.