And it's being driven mostly by younger, unvaccinated patients who require less ICU care but are turning in droves to health centers and emergency wards. At this facility, the number of COVID-19 patients has gone from 8 to 35 in just two weeks. More than one-tenth of regular hospital beds and one-fifth of intensive care wards were treating COVID-19 patients on then, but the current occupation rate stands at 2.4% in regular beds and 6.6% in ICUs. In Portugal and Cyprus, hospitals are far from previous near-collapse scenarios, although they steadily accumulate patients. As a medical worker, she also expressed the frustration of a never-ending cycle of virus surges.

Source: ABC News July 10, 2021 07:07 UTC