Coronavirus News Updates: Delhi Registers Over 24,000 New Covid Cases; Kejriwal Sounds Alarm

In Delhi, the situation remained grim with the city recording 24,375 new cases and 167 deaths. What is also a matter of concerns is that on Saturday, Delhi had a case positivity rate of 24.56 per cent. In other words, every fourth person in the city whose sample was taken in the past 24 hours, tested positive for the viral disease. This was Delhi's highest single-day spike as well as the highest daily case positivity rate.
In a video address, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said Delhi is facing a shortage of ICU beds, medical oxygen and Remdesivir to treat Covid-19 patients. Terming the health crisis in Delhi "very serious and worrisome", he said hospital beds are filling up fast as cases are rising alarmingly.
Kejriwal also sought help from the Centre to augment hospital beds and oxygen supply, and address the shortage of life-saving drugs. He demanded that the Centre should reserve 50 per cent of the total pool of beds in hospitals run by it in Delhi for Covid-19 patients.
"Our biggest target is to augment beds with oxygen supply attached," he said. In the next three-four days, the government will add 6,000 more beds, including 1,300 at Yamuna Sports Complex and 2,500 at Radhaswami Satsang premises, he said.

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[meenakshinaidu]

Please talk about bangalore!!
Cases in bengaluru is equivalent to mumbai and delhi and there is no strict rules implementation !

[universalnews]

Godi media fake corona news
Ese channel se bache . Or jagruk rahe .

[rajatetn]

Centre needs to intervene and pay less attention towards election campaigning. Provide all resources to Delhi Government. This is an unprecedent situation.

[justinkv]

Media ! May be you can save some life. Maximum give your skills to implement the awareness of COVID for the ordinary people...

[samratkunwar]

It was inevitable, people's are very fool not following SoPs

[vemaraju]

Your modiphobia will not change anything