Is Mumbai prepared to face Covid?

Mumbai has emerged as a national role model for containing the spread of novel coronavirus, Maharashtra’s Chief  Minister Uddhav Thackeray praised the efforts of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, (BMC), private doctors, NGOs for trying to curb the spike in covid cases.

Moreover, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Commissioner Iqbal Chahal has played an important role in the recent descend in the spike and helped many people. He said in one of his interviews that with great help from the government, he was able to bring tankers from Reliance Industries in Jamnagar in April,because of which there was no longer a shortage of oxygen in Mumbai. 

He goes on to explain how Mumbai has become self-sufficient in oxygen as they have established about 6 emergency stock points that are functioning 24/7 and can store about 50 MT of oxygen each. He believes that Mumbai is ready to face the third wave and thinks it would hit Mumbai by June or July, and they’re already preparing for it. 

He said it would take them a month’s time to extend their dashboards from 22,000 beds to more than 30,000. He goes on to say that their ICU beds have gone from 1,500 beds to almost 3,000 beds and that they’re trying to bring that up to 4,000 by June 21. 

Chahal has drawn up a very ambitious plan for vaccination and said that they’ll get a big tsunami of vaccination done, the BMC official said that he requested the CM for about 60,000 doses every day as per the shortage of doses, that way by the end of June they will be prepared for the third wave.