Covid-19: Mumbai sees rising hospitalisation in last four days

Mumbai's daily Covid-19 hospitalisations have increased by around 15% in the last four days amid a sharp rise in cases.

On Monday, 574 people were admitted to various city hospitals, up from 503 on Sunday, 389 on Saturday and 497 on Friday, while civic-run centres are racing to add beds and private hospitals reconvert many of non-Covid wards to Covid sections.

A few hospitals have also started recording a rise in ICU admissions with many directly coming with low oxygen saturation levels.


Official figures show that 12.2% of the 30,565 Covid-19 beds in Mumbai are occupied, as of Monday. Of the 2,720 ICU beds, 14% are occupied. A majority of the Covid beds in the city are in the public sector.

As on Monday, the private sector had just 5,192 Covid beds, of which 838 (16%) regular beds and 180 (3%) ICU beds were occupied.

Mid-level hospitals have started seeing a rise in demand too since Mumbai began witnessing a surge in cases in the past two weeks.

(With inputs from TOI)