65% of ICU beds in São Paulo are already occupied.
The spread of the coronavirus epidemic in the capital of São Paulo has already led to 65% of ICU beds being occupied. The system is at risk of collapsing.
247 - The healthcare system in the city of São Paulo is under severe pressure amid the coronavirus epidemic.
The journalist Monica Bergamo He warns in his column in Folha de S.Paulo that of the 321 ICU beds set aside in hospitals to exclusively treat Covid-19 patients, 210 are already occupied.
The city government plans to open new hospital beds in the coming weeks in an attempt to prevent a collapse.