Delhi: Big hospitals to be linked with 5-star hotels, price to be capped at Rs 10000 per day

A committee under the chairmanship of the Divisional Commissioner has been constituted to explore the possibility of creation of additional bed capacity. It has suggested using Pragati Maidan, Talkatora Indoor stadium, Thyagaraj Indoor stadium, Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium, Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium, Dhyanchand National Stadium etc. as make-shift hospitals, said the statement.

It was also informed that at present, 11,259 cases are in home isolation and specialised healthcare companies have been engaged exclusively for such cases.

A total of 2,000 pulse oxymeters have been reserved for patients under home isolation. Also, extensive TV and print media activities have been initiated to make people understand how to conduct themselves under home isolation.

Baijal has directed all the stakeholders for containment zone strategies as per the ICMR guidelines and has instructed the field officials to delineate the containment zones properly to ensure their effective management to contain the spread of the infection.

The LG also advised the officials to take lessons from the best practices of other cities like Mumbai, Chennai and Bengaluru for better management of Covid-19 cases in Delhi.