<span style="color: #222222;">With the decrease of fresh Coronavirus cases in comparison to the days during Covid second surge in the state, West Bengal Government has started to free up hospital beds that had been reserved at various state-run and private hospitals for Covid-19 patients. The beds that are being freed up will now be available for non-Covid patients. District authorities have been asked to keep one or two hospitals or wards with adequate critical care units, High Dependency Units (HDU), and paediatric intensive care units to treat Covid-19 patients.<br />''<br />''In May, just after the Assembly Polls, when the daily count of Covid-19 cases was around 20,000, the state had reserved about 21,900 beds in around 228 hospitals, including state-run and private facilities.<br />''<br />''More than 2700 ICU and HDU beds and around 1300 ventilators had been reserved for Covid-19 patients.</span><br />