Health authorities recorded 9,548 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, raising the total number of patients to 276,583, among whom 7,745 have died. India now has the fourth largest number of active cases after the US, which has more than one million active cases, Brazil (over 370,000), and Russia (over 230,000). India’s current “doubling time” is around 18 days — under the current growth rate, the total cases could exceed 550,000 within three weeks. The Centre and state governments have over the past two months expanded the available health infrastructure through dedicated Covid-19 facilities. The health ministry said on Tuesday these dedicated hospitals now have more than 300,000 isolation beds, 120,000 oxygen-supported beds, 32,000 intensive care unit beds and 21,494 ventilators.

Source: The Telegraph June 10, 2020 21:22 UTC