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CASES ON THE RISE
- As it reported more than 3,000 cases of novel Coronavirus for the third consecutive day, Delhi overtook Tamil Nadu on Sunday to become the state with the second-highest number of confirmed infections.
- Delhi now has 59,746 confirmed cases, of which 18,564, a little less than one-third, was added in just the last one week. Tamil Nadu, which slipped to third place, has 59,377 confirmed cases.
COMPARISON
- Maharashtra, with over 1.32 lakh cases, is still way ahead, but Delhi seems to be catching up with Mumbai very fast, and could soon even overtake it.
- Mumbai, which has about 66,500 cases now, has slowed down considerably in recent times. It added only just over 8,000 new cases in the last one week, compared to Delhi’s more than 18,000.
DELHI
- India now has over 4.25 lakh confirmed infections, of which over 2.27 lakh have already recovered from the disease.
- Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said that projections based on the doubling rate of 12.6 days show there will be around 5.5 lakh cases in Delhi by July-end.
HOW PREPARED IS DELHI?
- Delhi’s Economic Survey 2019-20 says there are 57,709 hospital beds in Delhi in medical institutions.
- Of these, 11,770 are in 38 Delhi government-run institutions, while 9,716 are in 21 institutions run by the Centre.
- The largest share, though, is in the private and voluntary organisations sector at 29,502. Municipal bodies have 3,726 beds in 53 institutions. Delhi has a total of 1,291 hospitals and nursing homes — 1,175 in the private space
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