Number of oncology hospital services during COVID-19 India 2019-20, by type

The number of new oncology patient registrations had decreased from over 112 thousand between March and May in 2019 to about 51 thousand registrations during COVID-19 pandemic in India. However, the number of patients undergoing external beam radiology reduced only by 23 percent in 2020 from the previous year.2019年3月至5月期间，印度新登记的肿瘤科患者数量从超过11.2万人降至约5.1万人，这一数字与COVID-19疫情期间的登记人数相当。然而，在2020年，相较于上一年，接受外照射放射治疗的患者数量仅减少了23%。