45K COVID-19 cases per day: IIT warns Delhi to be ready for third wave
While coronavirus cases in the national capital have been declining, the IIT-Delhi has warned Delhi to be ready to handle around 45,000 COVID-19 cases daily during the third wave of coronavirus.
Over 9,000 patients would be needing hospitalisation in the “worst-case scenario” of the third wave of coronavirus, the IIT-Delhi stated.
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To avoid such a crisis, the city would need 944 metric tonnes of oxygen on daily basis to be shared between hospitals and refillers, the report stated which was filed in Delhi high court on Friday.
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Meanwhile, a bench of justices Vipin Sanghi and Jasmeet Singh asked the Delhi government to file a chart within 4 weeks giving the timeline within which several steps could be implemented on the basis of recommendations.
The court identified one of the findings as crucial that apart from decentralised plants, the oxygen generation units could be established by the government at various locations and hospitals.
It observed that “We are dealing with a once-in-a-century pandemic... The last pandemic was in 1920, it said, adding that setting up an oxygen manufacturing plant would go a long way.
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