26 November,2020 01:14 PM IST | New Delhi | A correspondent
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The Delhi government has put 2,000 additional beds and 1,300 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds at hospitals in the past two weeks, as the national capital battles COVID-19.
Delhi's Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) hospital saw the maximum increase of 232 ICU beds, followed by Lok Nayak Jai Prakash (LNJP) hospital with 200 ICU beds.
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A special team has been monitoring the work of increasing beds in hospitals of Delhi 24/7 and is passing on instant information directly to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Over 9,000 regular beds and more than 1,000 ICU beds are now available for COVID-19 patients in Delhi.
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The third wave of COVID-19 in the capital saw the highest number of 8,600 positive cases on November 10. This number was 6,746 on November 22, 4,454 on November 23, and 6,224 on November 24 respectively.
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