Of the 7,410 beds reserved for Covid-19 patients by 157 private hospitals and nursing homes during the second wave of the pandemic, 4,098 have been activated now. Some hospitals added 1,221 more such beds, making a total of 5,319 such beds available now in private hospitals. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has given the deadline of January 10 to private hospitals to restore their capacity of beds to what was their peak level of capacity as of May 5, 2021.

At least 80 per cent of these beds will be kept reserved for municipal ward war rooms and charges will be as per the rates notified by the government of Maharashtra. The BMC has further instructed private hospitals to discharge admitted asymptomatic patients within the next 3 days to vacate beds.