Delhi will need 80,000 hospital beds for Covid patients by July: Kejriwal

After Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal reversed the decision to reserve hospitals for the city's residents, CM Arvind Kejriwal said the Delhi govt would follow the Centre's order

Delhi would need 80,000 additional hospital beds by the end of July in view of the rapidly rising number of coronavirus cases in the city, said Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday.
 
“Numbers show that coronavirus is going to spread rapidly in Delhi. By June 15, there might be 42,000 cases in the city, going up to 500,000 by the end of July,” he said in a televised statement.
 

Days after Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal reversed his government’s decision to reserve Delhi government hospitals for the treatment of the city’s residents, Kejriwal said his government would follow the Centre’s overriding