Intensive care items in all state hospitals in Cyprus are on crimson alert over the rising variety of Covid sufferers that must be intubated, Philenews reported on Thursday.
The state of affairs will get even worse since most of those contaminated sufferers proceed to be contagious. However even after they stop being contagious they nonetheless want to stay in intensive care items.
By the top of January the variety of deaths might rise above these recorded in August – the worst month thus far.
On Wednesday alone, one other eight deaths from Covid had been introduced, bringing the month’s complete quantity to 86. In August, a complete of 95 deaths had been recorded.
As for the state of play of Nicosia Hospital’s ICU, 40 coronavirus sufferers – of whom 36 intubated – had been underneath therapy there in Nicosia by late afternoon, particularly by 5pm.
One other 13 intubated sufferers who had been additionally admitted there with extreme coronavirus signs have now been declassified.
Furthermore, 19 sufferers are within the ICU with different critical well being points. The overall variety of sufferers has reached 72.
One other six sufferers who stopped being contagious are intubated within the ICU of the Limassol hospital, whereas the ICU of the Larnaca hospital treats six sufferers with different well being issues.
The variety of sufferers in ICUs earlier than the pandemic was on a median under 20.