COVID patients occupy over 41% of Madrid ICU hospital beds
With 41.70% of its ICU beds occupied by COVID patients, Madrid is to go into lockdown in coming days after the region's leader reluctantly agreed to obey a central government order to ban non-essential travel in the Spanish capital that is Europe's worst COVID-19 hotspot.
Hospitals in Madrid, the epicenter of Spain's coronavirus second wave, admitted 433 patients in the last 24 hours on Wednesday, health ministry figures show.
COVID patients are currently occupying 24.22% of the region's hospitals beds and 41.7% of the ICU beds.
Although pressure has been on the rise in hospitals, the situation is a not like that of the March and April when hospitals were near collapse.
Severo Ochoa hospital is using a medicalized hotel nearby to send COVID patients who no longer need hospital care but still need to self-isolate and cannot do so safely at home.
Madrid's COVID case load is double the national rate in Spain, which has recorded 769,188 cases - the highest in Western Europe - and 31,791 deaths.
(Source: Reuters)
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