Certain areas of New Delhi have hit their peak in COVID cases while certain other areas in the city are yet to reach the peak, said AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria on Monday.
The national capital had witnessed a surge in the cases of novel coronavirus over the past one month. However, the number of active cases has seen a dip over the past few weeks.
“There are hotspots, even in cities where there is spike of cases and it very likely that local community transmission in those areas is happening,” Dr Guleria said while addressing a press conference.
As the cases are on a rapid surge in Delhi, the Northern Railway has offered to provide 503 isolation coaches which equate to 8,048 beds as COVID care centres at nine different stations of Delhi on the request of the government, a Delhi based news agency ANI reported.
For this, Delhi’s Anand Vihar, Safdarjung, Delhi Shahdara, Adarsh Nagar, Delhi Cantt, Badli and Tughlaqabad are the areas which have been chosen. This was done in the cause of the upsurge of the virus in India’s national capital where 1,211 new cases of infections took the toll to 1,22,793.
The Delhi government is also aiming to set another 600 intensive care unit (ICU) beds in three hospitals dedicated to COVID patients, reported a national newspaper Hindustan Times.
Pertinently, India is the third country to record more than one million coronavirus cases, preceded by the United States and Brazil.
India is set to begin the trials of its indigenous coronavirus vaccine from this week, a top official from the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has claimed that a vaccine cure for COVID upon its development and marketing would reach usable stage only after 2020.
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