Mumbai’s civic body, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) plans on keeping its COVID-19 jumbo facility functional till March 31.
According to reports, this decision has been taken as a precautionary measure as the Union Government is increasing the flights arriving from the UK which could possibly lead to a surge in cases of coronavirus due to the new COVID-19 strain. Moreover, Mumbai records at least five flights from the UK per week.
In addition, across Mumbai’s seven jumbo facilities, 8,000 beds would continue to be reserved for the patients suffering from the coronavirus for the next two months, along with a few hundred in BMC-run hospitals. As of now, 75 per cent of the city’s isolation beds are running vacant.
On Thursday, January 28, Mumbai recorded 5,521 actively infected COVID-19 patients. Of them, only 3,271 have been hospitalised whereas 325 are critical. Currently, over 13,500 isolation beds are functional, which can be scaled up to 18,000 if needed. Among the 13,500, 8,000 beds are in jumbo facilities, 4,000 in private hospitals and another 4,000 in BMC hospitals.
Meanwhile, on January 28, while the Union Health Ministry informed that the country has managed to flatten the COVID-19 graph after the first wave of infections, it stated concern for two states, namely Kerala and Maharashtra for having the maximum number of COVID-19 cases.
However, India is vaccinating about four lakh people every day currently, but by July the government plans to vaccinate 30 crore people and each person needs two doses which means vaccinating nearly 30 lakh people daily starting now. On the spectrum of good news though, the country has not recorded a single coronavirus case in a fifth of its districts as its immunisation programme covered 25 lakh people with two vaccines - Covaxin and Covishield.
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