The Ministry of Home Affairs has said that multi-disciplinary teams have been constituted to visit all private hospitals in Delhi to check the status of compliance of various directions issued by the Union Health Ministry for testing and treating COVID patients and that by the Delhi government to contain the spread of COVID-19.

The Ministry said the teams will start their visit immediately and they will submit their reports within two days along with specific details. The teams have been given a list of tasks and have to report to MHA if the private hospitals have wards and ICU beds in accordance with orders issued by the Delhi government and if it has been displayed on the corona dashboard of Delhi government on a real-time basis. The teams will also be checking any violations.

Delhi High Court last week vacated a stay imposed by a single-judge bench on the Delhi government's order on the reservation of 80 percent ICU beds in 33 private hospitals for COVID-19 patients.

Meanwhile, a total of 3,797 new confirmed cases of Coronavirus infection were reported in Delhi during the last 24 hours taking the total number of cases to four lakh 89,202.

According to the Delhi Health Department, 3,560 recoveries have been reported in Delhi taking the number of recovered patients to 4 lakh 41 thousand 361. The death toll due to COVID-19 in the national capital reached 7,713 after 99 deaths were reported in Delhi in the last 24 hours. There are 40,128 active cases in the national capital.

As per the department, 11,810 RTPCR/CBNAA/TrueNat tests and 18,011 Rapid antigen tests were conducted yesterday taking the total number of tests to 54,79,391.