The Delhi Government will escalate bed strength amid rising cases of coronavirus in the national Capital, as on Tuesday, after a high-level meeting with Health Minister Satyendra Jain and officials, deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said 2,700 new beds will be added within next 4-5 days while city administration already increased beds from 6,071 to 19,101 in the last two weeks.

Urging people to follow the covid norms, and encouraging for home isolation, and to check the Delhi Corona App for the availability of beds in hospitals, Sisodia also warned hospitals for showing inaccurate information on the App will be dealt with stringent action.

Siodia said, “The Delhi government is working on a war footing to increase the number of beds in Delhi's hospitals. In the last 2 weeks the number of covid designated beds in Delhi have been increased by 3 times. The number of covid-19 beds in Delhi on April 3rd 2021 was 6071 which is 19101 on April 20.”

According to database of health department, presently, 320 beds in Burari Hospital, which will be increased to 800.

The capacity of beds at Ambedkar Nagar Hospital will be increased from 200 to 600 and the beds at Deen Dayal Upadyay Hospital will be increased from 250 to 750.

250-250 new beds will be added at Acharya Shree Bhikshu (150 to 400) and DRDO's covid-19 Centre.

The number of beds in the Satyawadi Raja Harishchandra Hospital of Narela will be increased from 200 to 400 while government school will be connected to the LNJP hospital which will include 125 beds and a center of 500 beds will be set up in the Commonwealth Games Village.

Citing the health department preparedness report on corona, Jain said that the beds have been increased upto three times in Delhi in the last few days, 2426 beds out of 18923 beds available in covid hospitals. More than 90 thousand covid tests were conducted in Delhi on Monday and positivity rate was 26 percent, It has been appealed to the Central Government that all companies should be allowed to supply Remdesivir so that its shortage ends, There is an appeal to the migrants that Delhi has a very short lockdown, they should not leave Delhi, the Kejriwal government will take care of its people, If the central government allows us to start vaccination centres in schools and community centers, then we will be able to do inoculate at a steadier pace.