Amid rapidly increasing numbers of Covid-19 patients in Raipur, the district administration has decided to convert student hostels into Covid healthcare centres, it was announced on Friday.
Asymptomatic patients will be kept in these hostels, an official press release said.
The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by District Collector S. Bharti Dasan and representatives of educational institutions including Hidayatullah National University Raipur, IIM Raipur, IIT Raipur, SIMT Kalinga, Amity and MATS University.
The Collector briefed the representatives about the condition of corona in Raipur and asked them to get hostels in their institutions cleaned and ready as the number of Covid positive patients was rapidly increasing in the city.
The hostels will host asymptomatic patients. He said the district administration was functioning with full efficiency but needed assistance from others as well to deal with the pandemic.
Raipur has emerged as the latest hotspot of coronavirus in Chhattisgarh. By Thursday, 9,116 patients had been detected Covid positive in Raipur, which now has 4,392 active cases and has recorded 45 deaths.