WHERE DELHI, MUMBAI STAND
With the two cities reporting large number of new cases in the past two weeks, we take a look at health care facilities NO OF ICU BEDS/VENTILATORS
MUMBAI
Total 16,197 number of
Covid-19
8,505 beds
Number of isolation beds
MUMBAI
16,197 5,577
442 Total
DELHI 12,908 3,899
378 Occupied application, where the official figures are made available. “So clearly the issue is that some hospitals are not updating the data on Delhi Corona app on time or misrepresenting actual data when patients call. Patients were not getting data on hospitals before, which the Delhi corona app is trying to fix. We are making
Occupied 428 Total
DELHI
Vacant 244 Occupied hospital bed data live and real time soon.”
Still, on May 26, 47-year-old Jagdish Ujjainwala who was admitted to the hospital on May 21, died of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) because his family was told that there was no free ICU bed available to treat his fast-worsening condition. And
Mumbai No. of dedicated Covid hospitals
79
Govt labs DELHI
32
HOSPITALS Delhi
Number of Covid health centres
TESTING CAPACITY Private labs MUMBAI
22 on May 27, the government-run Lok Nayak Hospital, one of the Covid-19 designated hospitals in Delhi had 1386 vacant isolation beds and 64 vacant ventilator supported beds, according to the data made available by the state government in its mobile appli
nNEWDELHI: Indian states worst hit by Covid-19 — particularly Delhi, Maharashtra and Gujarat — are also the ones that have tested higher than the national average and reported higher percapita infections and deaths, according to an HT analysis of testing data for 10 states.
Another worrying trend that has emerged from data shows that a majority of the 10 states has seen a rise in positivity rate (percentage of tests that are positive) in the past few weeks despite no major spike in their rates of testing.
Delhi, which also has the highest testing numbers among the 10 states, has reported the highest number of cases and deaths per million population (1,262 and 33, respectively). Both figures are around seven times the national average of 360 and 3%, respectively. Maharashtra has also conducted 4,177 tests per million, significantly more than the national average of 3,291. Compared to the national average, it has 3.9 times the number of cases per million (637) and 4.7 times (22) the number of deaths per million.