nearly 19,000 people in hospital

(time.news)

It is record number of hospitalizations for Covid in Brazil. The Ministry of Health of the South American country reported that yesterday the people currently in hospital for the pandemic are 18,785 and the new cases in the last 24 hours are 69,609 and 1,555 dead, with a total number of infected since the beginning of the pandemic equal to 10,938. 836 and 264,325 deceased. According to data from the newspaper ‘G1 Globo’, in the first wave of the pandemic in Brazil, the maximum number of patients hospitalized in Sao Paulo was 15,289 but, since last week, this number has been exceeded every day. In addition, in the Brazilian state of Porto Alegre, the occupancy of ICU beds increased by 102.8 percent.