Delhi won’t have 5.5 lakh Covid-19 cases by July end, assures Amit Shah

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HIGHLIGHTS

  • Amit Shah has visited the world’s largest COVID care facility
  • Government has planned to provide 30,000 Covid-19 beds by the end of June.
  • The rates of private hospitals will be reduced

Yesterday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has visited the world’s largest COVID care facility with over 10,000 beds in Radha Soami Satsang Beas campus, Chattarpur in New Delhi. He was also accompanied by Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal to the newly developed facility named Sardar Patel COVID Care Centre.

The doctor’s team will be made up there from Delhi government, AIIMS and ICMR to lower the shortage. The sprawling facility is similar to the size of 15 football fields.

“There are already 9,937 beds arranged by Delhi Government before which have not been completely occupied yet. It is not that they have not made arrangements but if the situation worsens, we have planned in advance,” Shah said, as reported by ANI.

Earlier, Delhi’s deputy CM Manish Sisodia that the national capital will have 5.5 lakh Covid-19 cases by the end of July.

Today, while interacting with media, home minister Amit Shah has confessed that he totally disagrees with Manish Sisodia that Delhi will have this much Coronavirus cases.

He also added that the Centre has taken steps to ramp up infrastructure and health facilities in Delhi in order to restrict the spread of novel coronavirus in the national capital. In that manner, the government has already planned in providing 30,000 Covid-19 beds by the end of June.

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In an interview with ANI, Shah said that the rates of isolation beds and ICU treatment has also been lowered significantly in Delhi and a committee was set up for the purpose.

There was a burden for people of Delhi that private hospitals are charging arbitrary rates. In improvement to that, Shah also added: “the rates of isolation beds which were around ₹24,000 and ₹25,000, have been reduced to ₹8000 to ₹10,000.”

Here are the other rates of private hospitals instructed by the central government:-

These will be the new reasonable rates decided by the government

“Around the second week of June, Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia said that there will be no place left, no beds left and the situation will be difficult. This also created a lot of fear in the minds of people in Delhi,” Shah said in an interview to news agency ANI.

At last, he added that many steps have been taken to curb the spread of the virus and it has infused confidence that disastrous situation said by Manish Sisodia will never arise.

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