Covid: Pune is running out of ventilators, has just 2 ICU beds available

All of the 469 ventilators are occupied and only two ICU beds without ventilator of the 360 are available in Pune Municipal Corporation area

If rising infections in Maharashtra were not enough to be a cause of concern, serious infections or critical cases have also growing. On Thursday, Maharashtra recorded 35,726 daily cases and data from Pune Municipal Corporation shows that the city ran out of ventilator beds.

In terms of ventilator beds without ICUs, PMC only had 2 of the 360 available. The occupancy rate for isolation beds with oxygen was 92 per cent, and in terms of overall beds, the occupancy was a high 90 per cent.

Mumbai, however, has been in a better condition. Although serious cases have increased in the