The onset of the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has led to an increase in the number of hospital beds occupied by coronavirus-infected patients in Meghalaya.
On January 2 just 18 hospital beds reserved for Covid-19 patients in Meghalaya were occupied but that figure has today increased to 50. While this is still low, representing less than 5 percent of the 1,084 beds across the state set aside for Covid patients, it is a steep rise.
At the height of the second wave last year, bed occupancy was close to 80 percent.
All but three hospital cases (two in Tura, one in Ri-Bhoi) according to today’s figures are in East Khasi Hills, with 16 alone admitted to the BSF Hospital in Shillong. No other hospital in Meghalaya has more than seven Covid patients – Nazareth Hospital and Military Hospital.
