: How Mumbai is preparing for a third wave of Covid-19, as cases surge amid fears of Omicron spread #IndiaNEWS Inside the wards of the Covid-19 jumbo centre at Mumbai’s Bandra Kurla Complex, on December

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How Mumbai is preparing for a third wave of Covid-19, as cases surge amid fears of Omicron spread #IndiaNEWS
Inside the wards of the Covid-19 jumbo centre at Mumbai’s Bandra Kurla Complex, on December 24, the staff were spreading out dry-cleaned mattresses and disinfected bedsheets on cots. The sprawling makeshift hospital, built under fabricated sheets in 2020, had emptied out after it discharged its last Covid-19 patient on November 15 this year.But now, as Omicron raises the threat of a possible third wave of the pandemic, its staff has begun contacting doctors who had worked there during the first and second waves to check if they were willing to return to work. Sixteen kilometres away, at another jumbo centre in the Nesco compound in Goregaon, trial runs have begun of five new pressure swing adsorption, or PSA, plants that generate oxygen.Mumbai is gearing up for a surge of Covid-19 cases, a month after the World Health Organisation on November 26 designated Omicron as a variant of concern. The city’s daily Covid-19 caseload has risen from 200 to over 900 in the past week, mirroring the current surge in parts of Europe, the United States and several African countries. The daily test positivity rate has doubled to 2.6% in a week. City officials suspect Omicron could be driving the recent surge in cases – but data...Read more

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