The Indian Railways converted 5,601 coaches into Covid care centres at a cost of Rs 47.38 crore during 2020-21. With about 16 beds being made available in each coach, that amounted to over 89,600 isolation beds. However, data from different sources seems to indicate that barely 4% of these beds were utilised for isolating Covid patients. Despite this experience from the first wave, conversion of coaches was happening even in April 2021.