Delhi's COVID Tally May Have Crossed 1,00,000 But Recoveries Are Much Higher Than Active Cases
Delhi has the third-highest number of COVID-19 cases among states and Union Territories and as a city has the most number of cases in the country.
Delhi is one of the three states/UTs that has seen the COVID-19 cases breach the 1,00,000 mark and has recorded 1,04,864 infections so far.
While it may sound bleak, there is a silver lining - the recovery rate in the national capital.
As of Wednesday, out of the total affected, 78,199 people have recovered from the infection which marks DelhiĄ¯s recovery rate at 74.5 percent.
This includes 3,982 Covid-19 patients who recovered in the past 24 hours.
At present, out of 23,452 active cases, over 14,000 cases continue to be under home isolation.
Though Delhi is still registering over 2000 new infections daily, the high recovery rate means that there is less stress on the medical infrastructure.
According to the Delhi Government data, out of the 15,096 beds available across hospitals, only 4,859 (32%) were occupied while 10,237 were vacant.
The demand for ventilator beds, which reached over 70% last week, reduced to 48%. At least 442 of the 955 ventilator beds were vacant.
Despite the fact that ICMR is still maintaining that plasma therapy for COVID-19 is in the clinical trial phase, Delhi has been aggressively pushing it, and has had a considerable amount of success
This includes Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain who was administered plasma therapy after his condition worsened and has since made full recovery.
Delhi has also set up the country's first plasma bank earlier this month at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences to help bring together recovered donors and COVID-19 patients.
But with the high number of demands and fewer donors, the Delhi government has ordered that from now onwards if a COVID-19 patient at any hospital needs plasma from the plasma bank it will have to first arrange for a replacement donor.?
The onus to find a replacement donor will rest entirely upon the nodal officer of that hospital.
Delhi?government on Thursday said that Medical Superintendents of hospitals would be required to nominate a nodal officer for the coordination, requisition, and insurance of plasma from the 'plasma bank'.
"For the sake of coordination, requisition and issuance of Convalescent plasma from?Delhi?plasma bank, all the Medical Superintendents/In-charges of hospitals in Govt and Private/Corporate Sectors are required to nominate a Nodal Officer," said the?Delhi?Government.
"The Nodal Officer will provide voluntary plasma donor including replacement donors keeping in view the projected requirement of Convalescent plasma and the scarce availability of this meagre resource," it added.
