India is witnessing a hospitalisation rate of 5-10 per cent in the third Covid wave, the government said today, adding that the situation is "dynamic and evolving and the need of hospital care may change rapidly". In the second wave, the official data says, the hospitalisation rate was in the range of 20-23 per cent. Warning of a bigger surge in cases than the previous wave, the government, however, warns that for every 100 Delta cases, there could be 400-500 Omicron cases. There could be 125-350 hospitalisations for every 100 in the second wave, the data indicates.
