Financial hub in India readies for treating 75,000 cases during predicted infection peak
Workers gather outside a police station to take a bus directed in Mumbai during a nationwide lockdown . Picture: INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP
The goal is to be able to treat and isolate at least 75,000 cases, a projection based on last month’s data when cases were doubling almost every week, said Ashwini Bhide, additional commissioner at Mumbai’s municipal corporation. The pace has since slowed amid the world’s strictest lockdown and, “while we are unlikely to touch those projections by the end of May, we continue to plan for the worst case scenario,” she said.
Over the past weekend, it started operating a 1,000-bed non-critical Covid hospital, that can be scaled up to 5,000 beds. Soon it will have another 1,000-bed intensive care unit stocked with ventilators and other critical equipment.
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