Badly-hit India will only hit virus peak in November, experts warn, as train carriages become wards

India will not reach its coronavirus peak until mid-November, according to researchers from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), as an overwhelmed Delhi plans to convert train carriages into isolation wards to cope with a surge in infections and a new lockdown looms for the badly-hit city of Chennai. Last week, some public hospitals in Delhi hospitals were unable to admit coronavirus-positive patients as they had already run out of beds, despite fewer than 40,000 cases being recorded. India’s capital only has 9,816 dedicated beds for coronavirus patients but its deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia has warned 500,000 people will be infected by July 31. The Indian Government has now stepped in and announced a plan to convert 500 train carriages into isolation wards in Delhi for around 8,000 people. In Chennai and surrounding areas, a new lockdown will be imposed on Friday for 15 million people after a spike in cases. The number of tests being carried out in Delhi will be doubled over the next two days, and a temporary 10,000-bed hospital is being built in the Radha Soami Satsang Beas Ashram.

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