Hyderabad: The daily peak hospitalizations and ICU facilities requirement during the Omicron.

Hyderabad: The daily peak hospitalizations and ICU facilities requirement during the Omicron variant driven Covid-19 third wave is expected to be within manageable limits in Telangana, latest projections made by researchers from Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc)-Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Bengaluru have indicated. unlike the Delta variant when the hospitalization was hovering between 20 percent and 25 percent among active infections, the Omicron variant is expected not to put extreme pressure on hospitalizations and ICU facilities in Telangana.

The IISc-ISI predictions based on the transmissibility of the Omicron variant, developed by researchers, Siva Athreya and Rajesh Sundaresan, have indicated that even during the worst-case scenarios, the hospitalizations in Telangana will peak at around 10,500 beds in a day. the overall bed strength in Telangana in government and private hospitals, which includes regular, ICU, and oxygen beds, is 56,036 beds out of which 40,697 are in private hospitals while the rest of the 15,339 beds are in government hospitals.

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