New Delhi, June, 14.2020 : The Delhi government plans to add 20,000 beds across the hotels and banquet halls of the city over the coming week to cope with the spiraling coronavirus cases.
Approximately 11,000 beds will be arranged at 80 banquet halls and these beds will be attached to nursing homes, sources said.
Around 4,000 beds will also be arranged at 40 hotels and will be attached to private hospitals in the city.
All nursing homes with 10 to 49 beds will be set aside for coronavirus patients, which will add another 5000 beds to the total.
Treatment of coronavirus patients has already started in some of the hotels-turned hospitals. All district magistrates have been directed to implement the new guidelines, sources.
