With 85% Covid beds lying vacant in the city and admissions reducing, most hospitals have resumed routine procedures over the past few weeks. Many, in fact, are facing a greater demand for non-Covid beds. As on Friday, 19,411 of Mumbai's 23,270 Covid beds lay vacant. Over 18,300 of them are in jumbos, private and public hospitals; the rest in Covid Care Centres meant for non-critical cases. Around 85% of isolation beds and 55% of ICU beds are unoccupied. Nearly 47% beds with ventilator support too are vacant. Parel's KEM Hospital, which mostly admits critical patients, no longer has Covid deaths daily. Admissions, too, are every 2-3 days. Dean Dr Hemant Deshmukh said 60% routine work has resumed. "We currently have 500 non-Covid patients," he said. Ward 6, KEM's only Covid ward with 35 beds, had 16 patients on Friday. Deshmukh said they can add Covid beds if numbers surge. In April, when the city was recording an average 9,000 cases daily, the state Covid task force had advised hospitals to stop routine surgeries to conserve oxygen for Covid patients. Dr Mohan Joshi, dean of Sion Hospital, said the situation began to improve about one and a half months ago. "Our daily admissions are down to 10 now. We have reduced Covid beds to accommodate more non-Covid patients," Dr Joshi said. KEM and Sion authorities said they were performing 300-350 major and minor surgeries daily now.