COVID-19 hospitals in Mumbai doubled beds in their ICUs over the past 30 days so as to accommodate more patients, but over 90 per cent of them still remain occupied. The reason — a two-fold increase in number of symptomatic cases in the city. As on May 25, the city had 5,732 symptomatic cases, which rose to 11,641 as of June 24.

The increase in symptomatic patients has kept most of the ventilator and oxygen equipped beds, which were also increased over the past month, occupied too. As of June 24, 5,901 of the total 7,382 oxygen-equipped beds and 730 of the 767 ventilator-supported beds remained engaged.