Anil Baijal chairs a meeting with Delhi Disaster Management Authority and Manish Sisodia in New Delhi on Tuesday. (PTI)The Delhi government on Tuesday nudged the Centre to declare community transmission of the coronavirus in the city and suggested the capital might by July 31 witness 5.5 lakh Covid-19 cases and need 80,000 hospital beds for them. The assessment is that at the current rate of cases doubling in 12.6 days, “by June 15, there’ll be 44,000 Covid-19 cases and 6,600 beds will be required”, Sisodia said. Almost 3,000 more Covid-19 beds would be available by June 20, with several four-star and five-star hotels linked to hospitals and offering beds at Rs 10,000 a day. Ganguly told The Telegraph there were currently no scientific data to ascertain whether community transmission was happening in Delhi.

Source: The Telegraph June 09, 2020 20:15 UTC