Coronavirus: Intensive care beds in Austrian hospitals are filling up fast



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A first intensive care unit has reached its capacity limit. Federal states report increases of about 30 percent in just a few days. The effects of the confinement will not appear in hospitals for at least two weeks.


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The intensive care unit at Dornbirn Hospital is small. The fact that it reached its capacity limit on Sunday and is currently no longer able to accept intensive care patients is a symptom of how quickly hospitals are currently filling up with Covid patients.

Between Friday and Sunday alone, the number of sick people who must be treated in Austrian hospitals increased by eight percent (up to 1948, including intensive care patients). The increase in patients in intensive care weighs more: on Friday there were 262, on Sunday 291, a …

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