The Latin American continent continues to suffer from the Corona virus more than ever before, and a large number of Latin American countries report more than 1000 cases of Coronavirus, according to the Argentine newspaper "Infobay" in a report.
"Our hospitals are more full than ever," said Dr. Carissa Etienne, Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), confirming during the PAHO weekly briefing that, "During the past week, more than 1.3 million people were infected with the Covid-19 virus in America. Latin and Caribbean region, and more than 36,000 people have died due to complications related to the epidemic. "
"Nearly 40% of all global Covid-19 deaths reported last week occurred here in our region," she added.
While Etienne explained, Puerto Rico and Cuba are still "important drivers of infection with the Coronavirus" in the Caribbean, while Guatemala suffers from large surges in cases and Costa Rica is reporting a record of infections in Central America.
The director of the Pan American Health Organization added that hospitals in both countries (Guatemala and Costa Rica) are full of patients, most of them under the age of 70.
"Cases are accelerating in Guyana, Argentina and Colombia, where the number of weekly cases is five times higher than at this time last year," Etienne said, adding that prevention was not effective and we are witnessing the consequences after the procedures.
The report indicated that health systems are saturated, and intensive care units across the region have become not only crowded with the elderly and the elderly, but also the youth.
"In recent months, hospital admission rates for those under the age of 39 have increased by more than 70% in Chile," said the director of the Pan American Health Organization.
“In Brazil, the largest increase in hospitalizations occurred among people over the age of 40,” Etienne said, while the death rate in the country doubled among those under the age of 39, quadrupling among those under the age of 39. 40 years and over. It has tripled among the 50-year-olds between December 2020 and March 2021.
Etienne praised the region’s efforts to expand hospital capacity during 2020: “Colombia, Panama and the Dominican Republic doubled their ICU bed capacity, while Chile and Peru tripled their capacity, and Mexico and Honduras nearly quadrupled their capacity,” however, the WHO director warned countries. American hospitals say that hospitals are "seriously full".
"If infections continue to increase at this rate, we hope that over the next three months, the countries of our region will need to maintain and increase the capacity of beds in the intensive care unit," Etienne said.
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