Coronavirus hospitalisations have hit a record high in New Delhi, as officials called for new restrictions to control a third wave of infections in India’s capital city.
More than 9,000 people were hospitalised on Tuesday, the most recent day for which data were available. Thousands of new cases have been reported daily in the city of 20m people over recent weeks even as the nationwide tally has fallen.
“Our hospital has been close to capacity for weeks,” said Dr Srinivas Rajkumar T, general secretary of the resident doctors’ association at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi’s biggest government hospital.
The state government has proposed introducing new restrictions to reduce the number of people at weddings to 50 and asked the central government for the authority to lock down markets identified as coronavirus hotspots.
India’s has the world’s second-highest coronavirus caseload after the US, with more than 8.9m confirmed…