Shah takes charge of Delhi’s Covid war: 750 ICU beds, double RT-PCR tests

New Delhi, Nov 15 : With Union Home Minister Amit Shah taking charge of Delhi’s war against Covid-19 once again, the Centre on Sunday assured the Arvind Kejriwal government of 750 ICU beds in the DRDO centre out of which 500 will be made available in the next two days itself.
The Centre has also decided to double the RT-PCR tests in the national capital. These decisions came at the Delhi government and Centre’s emergency meeting at Delhi’s North Block in the wake of rising Covid cases.
“Covid cases have been sharply rising ever since October 30. We still have a decent number of Covid beds, but ICU beds are fast getting exhausted. The Centre said that 500 ICU beds will be made available in the DRDO centre in the next couple days and additionally another 250 in the coming days,” Kejriwal told reporters after the meeting.
In a series of tweets, Shah informed about the ‘directions’ given in the ‘high-level meeting’ to review the growing cases of Covid-19 and the medical infrastructure in Delhi.
“Today gave various instructions in the meeting. First, the RT-PCR test in Delhi will be increased two-fold. Secondly, mobile testing vans of the Ministry of Health and ICMR will be deployed where there is a high risk of getting Covid and making maximum use of the capacity of labs in Delhi,” Shah tweeted.
Shah also asked the Kejriwal government to increase capacity of hospitals in Delhi and availability of other medical infrastructure.