Occupancy of ICUs for covid patients already reaches 78% in Cali

Cali health authorities remain on the alert for the rapid increase in covid-19 cases in the city, as the end of 2020 approaches.

With a cut to this Friday, the occupation of the Intensive Care Units destined for confirmed or suspected covid-19 patients has already reached 78%, as revealed by the Municipal Health Secretary, Miyerlandi Torres.

“We have significantly increased the percentage of occupancy in the ICU by people who are positive and suspected of covid-19. We have 78% occupancy of the exclusive beds for covid,” said the official.

Torres added that the occupation of the total of these spaces in the city, adding the ICUs destined to patients with other pathologies, continues to be around 91%.

“The reality is that we have people already waiting for an ICU, we are trying to manage it from the health services,” the official warned.

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He recalled that Cali had, until this Friday, three consecutive days with more than 700 positive cases of covid-19 in the city, and in two of them the infections were around a thousand.

“The most affected population continues to be people over 60, because the risk of referral to the ICU and the risk of fatality are great,” he said.

In addition, he assured that the number of cases that has been registered in recent days “is already equal to those we had between the second week of July and the first week of August. We have already reached that same level and we hope, with these data, that next week we will have an increase in people referred to ICU and that fatality may possibly increase “.

“Until we have no vaccine and there is no treatment, please take care of yourself,” he said.

This Saturday, Valle del Cauca added 1,137 new cases of covid-19, which means that the department was for the fourth consecutive day above a thousand cases.

In addition, 33 new deaths from the virus were confirmed in Valle del Cauca, 14 of them in Cali.

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