<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.95pt;background:white"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Allnursing homes in Delhi having bed capacity of 10 beds to 49 beds are declaredas Covid nursing homes. Delhi government has ordered that all such nursinghomes are required to make their Covid beds functional within three days of theissue of order.</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.95pt;background:white"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:times new roman;color:#222222">DelhiChief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal said that this decision will make sure theavailability of more than five thousand beds.Mr. Kejriwal also appealed to alldoctors to volunteer for Delhi government's Corona Telemedicine Helpline.</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.95pt;background:white"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:times new roman;color:#222222">Delhigovernment has taken this decision to avoid intermingling of Covid and NonCovid patients in small and medium multispecialty nursing homes and to increasethe bed capacity for Covid-19 patients. Cases of corona virus are increasing inDelhi in a rapid manner.</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.95pt;background:white"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:times new roman;color:#222222">Totalcases have reached&nbsp; 38 thousand 958 and within the last 24 hours twothousand 134 cases have been reported in the National Capital.</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.95pt;background:white"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:times new roman;color:#222222">Delhigovernment projected that there would be requirement of more than 15 thousandbeds by the 30th of this month and by&nbsp; 15th July, the requirement of bedswould swell up to more than 33 thousand beds.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
News On AIR | June 14, 2020 10:56 AM
Nursing homes in Delhi having 10 to 49 beds declared as Covid nursing homes