Criticism mounts as New Delhi hospital beds run out amid Covid-19 surge | Malay Mail

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NEW DELHI, June 15 — India’s capital is fast running out of hospital beds amid a surge in coronavirus cases and is struggling to contain the pandemic, after critics said it did too little to prepare and reopened shopping malls and temples too soon. Some families of people infected with Covid-19...

Monday, 15 Jun 2020 09:43 PM MYT

Some families of people infected with Covid-19 have complained about having to hunt for beds for their relatives after hospitals turned them away. The office of New Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and the city’s health authorities did not respond to requests for comment. Cases in the capital are set to surge. The government estimates it will have 550,000 Covid-19 cases by the end of July, around 13 times current numbers, and will require 150,000 beds by then.

“They probably under-estimated the possibility of a rise of infection and its spread, or the models they used then did not seem to indicate the spread they are seeing now,” said Bhan.

 

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