One-fifth of active Covid cases in Delhi and Mumbai need hospitalisation

At the height of the last wave in Delhi in November 2020, the hospitalisation rate in the national capital had reached 23%

Though Delhi has only a fourth of Mumbai's active caseload, 4.6% of active cases in Delhi require ICU beds and 3.3% require a ventilators.

On Sunday, India became only the second country in the world to cross 1 lakh daily cases. While India tops the world in terms of daily case additions, many researchers have claimed that the second wave in the country is not as severe as the first one. Indeed, the number of deaths are low. As against a high of 1,247 deaths when cases were close to 90,000 on September 19, India recorded only 478 deaths on