The surge in Covid cases has prompted the BBMP to reserve 10,000 private hospital beds by January 16 to ensure free treatment for patients. The civic body has also streamlined the bed-blocking system. According to the new system, a mobile triaging unit (MTU) will visit the residence of a patient seeking the bed facility to assess if he or she actually requires hospitalisation.
The national seven-day average of COVID-19 hospital admissions was 60,000 by Wednesday, far off last winter s peak but 50% higher than in early November, the US government reported.
deaths today. 166 nursing home outbreaks. when we look at the deaths that we had over the past four days, i want to do a dive. we have lost four healthy people in their 20s. two of whom were pregnant. zero vaccinated. reporter: meanwhile, the governor says he will not institute a mask mandate but he wanted to make it clear and share with the public that he has received the covid-19 vaccine, so has his family and he s encouraging others to do so. victor. these numbers are heartbreaking. the numbers of new cases and deaths and 78 covid beds, icu beds there for a state that has a population of three million. thank you very much. let s go to another one of the statements with limited icu capacity.
he detailed this past week as one of the most exhausting and disheartening of his career, adding, there s been a lot of talk about personal freedoms and mandates and government overreach and such. and some day when the sun is shining again, we can sit down and have some interesting conversations about all that. he writes. i might even agree with you on some of those points, but i can t do that today, not today, because there are no beds. many health professionals across the country are echoing that same message. cnn s tom foreman joining me now. so, tom, you ve been following this in terms of hospitalizations. where else are we seeing these shortages and these major concerns? we re getting updates just on and on and on, so the map is constantly changing. this is i.c.u. bed utilization by state. look down here. this is the area where you see so much resistance to masking, so much resistance to vaccinations. they are really getting hammered in their i.c.u.s there. in terms of covid b
and government overreach and such and some day when the sun is shining again we can sit down and have some interesting conversations about all that. i might even agree with you on some of those points, but i can t do that today. not today because there are no beds. tom forman is joining us now with the latest numbers. and they re alarming, tom. they are, brianna. all across this country and intensive care units this draw 345 is playing out. this is the load on icu bed utilization by state in general. of course red is bad. an awful lot of load out there. but specifically look at the covid beds where it s above 25%. you can see some of these places are absolutely being hammered by this additional load particularly if you look at the south down here where 25% and above, well, we know some of these are way over 25% in terms of their covid load. but look at that area down there. and if you want to know how much above it is, just look at the raw numbers.