KOLKATA: Three Covid waves since March 2020 have made private hospitals in Kolkata battle-ready to take on another surge and they now have the expertise, infrastructure and the experience to set up a Covid ward quicker than ever before, they say.
The two reported cases of XE - the new Covid variant - from Mumbai, however, are not yet making them expand their Covid wards that have either been reconverted into general ones or squeezed drastically last month. Hospital authorities, however, said they were keeping an eye on the situation and will follow government instructions.
