Hotels in Mumbai may turn Covid centres as BMC looks to meet bed shortage

Mumbai had nearly 10,000 Covid-19 cases on Sunday and is among the top ten worst affected districts in the country. It has over 91,000 active cases and spike is causing a strain on its health infra

Four and five star hotels in Mumbai may be used as Covid-19 care centres as the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) looks to address the shortage of hospital beds in the city. The city’s Covid case count dropped to 6,905, lowest so far in April.
 
Hotels, however, are not sure how this would be implemented as they are not designed to function as hospitals. They (hotels) are willing to offer their properties for quarantining patients, who have turned negative and for health care workers.
 
However, converting hotel rooms into hospitals for positive patients poses practical challenges, said a top