Arvind Kejriwal orders de-linking of hotels attached with hospitals in Delhi

NewsBharati    29-Jul-2020 16:48:39 PM
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New Delhi, July 29: As the coronavirus situation is improving in the national capital, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday announced that the government will de-link the hotels that had tie-ups with hospitals to increase the COVID-19 beds here.
 
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“Some hotels were attached to hospitals to increase the number of COVID beds. In view of the improving situation and all hotel beds lying vacant for the last many days, these hotels are now being released,” Kejriwal tweeted.
 
 
More than 4,600 additional COVID-19 beds were created in Delhi by attaching around 40 hotels to various hospitals. But most of these beds were lying vacant due to improving the COVID-19 situation in Delhi. He also directed city officials to strictly follow the government's guideline about doing an RT-PCR (real-time polymerase chain reaction) test on patients whose COVID-19 antigen test report is negative despite showing symptoms.
 
 
Delhi has seen a significant drop in the number of coronavirus cases over the last few days with daily figures close to or less than 1,000. According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Delhi has recorded 107 cases less than Tuesday, even as the total number of discharged patients in the national capital touched 1.17 lakh. The city-state has recorded 3,881 deaths so far, 28 in the past 24 hours, the MoHFW data showed.
 
The Delhi government had in early June empowered the district magistrates in 11 districts to use hotels as an extension of hospitals treating COVID-19 patients as the cases surged.