Delhi needs to be ready for handling 45,000 COVID-19 cases daily if third wave hits: IIT Delhi report

The report by IIT Delhi has also been filed before the Delhi High Court. It states that to overcome the possible third wave, Delhi would need 944 metric tonnes of oxygen daily.

A report by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has suggested that Delhi needs to be prepared for handling as many as 45,000 COVID-19 cases a day with 9,000 patients needing hospitalisation in the worst-case scenario if a third wave of the pandemic hits the national capital.

The report by IIT Delhi has also been filed before the Delhi High Court. It states that to overcome the possible third wave, Delhi would need 944 metric tonnes of oxygen daily.

After going through the debate, a bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Jasmeet Singh asked Delhi Government to file a chart within four weeks, indicating the timeline within which several steps could be implemented as per the recommendations made by IIT Delhi.

The report has drawn three possible scenarios of the possible third wave. The first scenario takes the base of the number of infections, hospital admissions and oxygen supply volume witnessed during the second wave, the other two scenarios raise the categories by 30 per cent and 60 per cent.

Meanwhile, the Delhi High Court has directed the Delhi government to consider it as paramount the suggestions and proposal of an IIT Delhi's professor on setting up oxygen manufacturing plants in the national capital at various locations and hospitals to deal with the COVID-19 crisis.
“We are dealing with a once-in-a-century pandemic and setting up of oxygen manufacturing plant would go a long way. You should consider it as paramount. That will take care of so much things-storage, movement, evaporation. Just consider," said the high court to the Delhi government.

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