Mumbai boosts hospital capacity as Covid cases rise, bed occupancy doubles

Around 10 out of every 1,000 beds are already occupied by Covid-19 patients, up from 4 a week ago

City authorities have been adding bed capacity even as bed occupancy crossed the 1 per cent mark.

A total of 254 out of Mumbai’s 24,600 beds are currently occupied as of June 7th (see chart 1). This means that around 10 out of every 1,000 beds is already occupied by a Covid-19 patient. Less than 4 out of every 1,000 beds were occupied a week ago. The daily case number has risen to 1,242 as of 7th June from 506 on 31st May, with a positivity rate of around 7 per cent. The total number of daily hospitalisations has risen from