New Delhi, May 26 (EFE).- India on Monday asked several hospitals in the country to be on alert as Covid-19 cases crossed 1,000, 752 of them recorded in the last week, official sources said. <\/p>
“We have details of the Covid-19 cases. Our hospitals have all the facilities. We have also issued an advisory,\u201d Delhi’s Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said in a statement to the media on Monday.<\/p>
“We have analyzed the scenario and there is no panic situation,” she added.<\/p>
According to data from India’s health ministry, there are 1,009 active cases in the country, more than 100 of them in the capital, New Delhi, with an increase of 752 cases nationwide since last week. <\/p>
The main affected states, which currently have more than 600 active cases, are Kerala, in southern India, with 335 new cases, and Maharashtra, in the west, with 153.<\/p>
The government website that collects this data also offers the public a list of state hospital phone numbers to check the availability of beds and ventilators, which they recommend calling before going to the hospital.<\/p>
With these new alerts, the Indian government seeks to prevent a repeat of the dire situation the country experienced during the second wave of Covid-19 in 2021, when more than 400,000 infections and 4,000 deaths were recorded daily as the health system collapsed.<\/p>
In the last week, seven infected people have died, taking the total number of deaths caused by the disease to 533,673.<\/p>
India, which was one of the worst-hit countries by the pandemic worldwide, has recorded more than 45 million cases since the start of the health emergency and 533,673 confirmed deaths, despite the World Health Organization (WHO) estimating that the death toll in that country reached 4.7 million. EFE<\/p>
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