Saturday | 19th September, 2020

Saturday | 19th September, 2020

New Delhi: Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Friday said over 500 extra ICU beds are now available for COVID-19 patients after an order was issued recently to several private hospitals to earmark designated percentage of those beds for the purpose. Last week an order was issued that 80 per cent ICU beds in 33 private hospitals here are to be reserved for COVID-19 patients, Jain had earlier said. "As per the Corona app, over 500 extra ICU beds are now available for COVID-19 patients," he told reporters on Friday. "It is good that death rate is less than 1 per cent lately, it used to above 3.5-4 per cent for a month earlier," Jain said. According to the bulletin, out of the total number of 14,974 beds in COVID hospitals, 6,956 are vacant.