Delhi To Have The World’s Largest COVID-19 Facility With 10,000 Beds, Size Of 22 Football Fields

Delhi government has started converting the Radha Soami Spiritual Centre in South Delhi into the world's largest temporary COVID-19 care facility with 10,000 beds. The decision has been taken to rapidly increase the capacity & effectively manage the anticipated wave of COVID-19 cases in the national capital. An interesting feature of this facility would be its corrugated cardboard beds, which need not be sanitised but can be, and are recyclable. Chhatarpur centre has a covered area of 12,50,000 square feet. The centre is as large as 22 football fields, with preinstalled fans & CCTV cameras. Before the pandemic, almost 3 lakh people would attend sermons here. According to South Delhi district magistrate BM Mishra, who is overseeing the work, the facility set will function like 20 mini hospitals with 500 beds each. The city currently has about 10,000 dedicated COVID-19 beds in state-run, central and private hospitals. The number of cases in Delhi has reached 44, 688 with 1,837 deaths.