“The ICU is full”: medical staff on frontline of China’s COVID fight say hospitals are “overwhelmed”
Beijing, China Reuters In more than three decades of emergency medicine, Beijing-based doctor Howard Bernstein said, he has never seen anything like this. Patients are arriving at his hospital in ever-increasing numbers; almost all are elderly and many are very unwell with COVID and pneumonia symptoms, he said. An employee works at the production line […]
No-one’s safe anymore: Japan’s Osaka city crumples under COVID-19 onslaught
Osaka, JapanReuters Hospitals in Japan’s second largest city of Osaka are buckling under a huge wave of new coronavirus infections, running out of beds and ventilators as exhausted doctors warn of a “system collapse”, and advise against holding the Olympics this summer. Japan’s western region home to nine million people is suffering the brunt of […]
With ICUs nearly full, Colombia surpasses 80,000 COVID-19 deaths
Bogota, Colombia Reuters Confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in Colombia passed 80,000 on Friday with intensive care units almost full in the biggest cities, where large crowds have been gathering for weeks of anti-government protests. Authorities warned this week that the demonstrations – initially called in opposition to a now-cancelled tax reform but which have expanded […]