NASHIK: With the rise in Covid cases, the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has decided to reopen its Covid care centre (CCC) at the hostel building of the state government’s social welfare department.
The capacity of the CCC will be 500 beds and will be operational within the next two to three days. The civic body had opened nine CCCs in the city, including in the hostel building, during the Covid outbreak.
There had been a spike in cases in September 2020, when the city was recording 864 cases per day on an average. Followed by a drop in cases added per day in the next coming months.
After the drop in cases, NMC had closed all nine CCCs in phases by December end. NMC had made operational its two covid hospitals- Bytco and Zakir Hussain hospital in the city.
The city had reported only 99 cases per day on an average in the first week of February, but the cases started increasing from the second week. Between March 1 and 7, the city had reported around 262 cases per day on average, but the cases tripled to around 714 cases in the second week of March.
The city has recorded 950 cases per day on an average during the last four days between March 14 and 17.
“As there has been a rise in new cases, we are opening the CCC at the building of the social welfare department in the next two to three days,” said NMC commissioner Kailas Jadhav.