India’s total number of coronavirus patients since the pandemic began crossed 9 million today. It took India 12 days to go from 5 million cases to 6 million, 13 days to go from 6 million to 7 million, 18 days to go from 7 million to 8 million and 22 days to go from 8 million to 9 million. Government figures showed 90 percent of the available critical care beds with ventilators and 86 percent of critical care beds without ventilators for virus patients were full by Thursday. There were less than 500 available critical care beds for virus patients in the capital, a city with a population of 29 million. Efforts are being made by New Delhi authorities to add 1,400 critical care beds.

Source: The Standard November 20, 2020 07:10 UTC