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411 ICU beds added in 5 days for COVID 19 patients in Delhi Officials

| Saturday | 21st November, 2020

New Delhi November 21 Over 400 ICU beds have been added in hospitals run by the Centre and the Delhi Government in the city over the last five days amid a surge in coronavirus cases officials said on Saturday. ICU beds have been added in both Delhi Government and Centre-run hospitals following Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwals order an official said. “As many as 411 ICU beds have been added in government hospitals in Delhi over the last five days after Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal issued directions in this regard” the official said. Twenty-nine beds were added on Tuesday 100 on Wednesday 76 on Thursday and 206 on Saturday the official said. “Several private hospitals have also added more ICU beds after they were told to reserve 80 per cent of them for COVID-19 patients” he said. The Aam Aadmi Party government had on Thursday directed private hospitals to increase the percentage of non-ICU COVID-19 beds from 50 per cent to 60 per cent. It had also order 42 private hospitals to reserve 80 per cent of ICU beds for coronavirus patients with immediate effect. The national capital recorded 6608 fresh COVID-19 cases in a day taking the infection tally on Friday to over 5.17 lakh while 118 more fatalities during the same period pushed the death toll to 8159 authorities had said. The positivity rate was 10.59 per cent according to a bulletin issued by the Delhi health department on Friday. The city reported 7456 COVID-19 cases on Thursday and the positivity rate was 12.09 per cent. The highest single-day spike in cases till date in Delhi was 8593 which was recorded on November 11. On the same day 85 fatalities were registered. On Friday 118 fatalities were recorded which took the death toll to 8159. The city had recorded its highest 131 single-day deaths on November 18. The total number of cases climbed to 517238 on Friday of which 468143 have recovered. The city as per data on Friday had 40936 active cases down from 43221 on Thursday. The recovery rate was over 89 per cent. --- PTI

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