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Covid19 hospital system 70% full
FILE PHOTO: The Couva Hospital and Multi- Training Facility. -
PRINCIPAL medical officer of institutions at the Health Ministry Dr Maryam Abdool-Richards said the occupancy rate in the parallel health care system is now at 70 per cent, the highest it has been since the beginning of the pandemic.
She was speaking at a press conference at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann s, on Friday afternoon.
She said the rolling average of daily cases is at 471 and an additional 40 patients a day are being admitted.
Eighteen per cent of people (18 out of 100 patients) who become infected are admitted to hospital, while only three per cent are discharged, she said, and the other 15 per cent stay in hospital longer.
File photo by Marvin Hamilton
PRINCIPAL medical officer of institutions at the Health Ministry Dr Maryam Abdool-Richards has said the concept of a (household) bubble she has been hearing touted around will not work in the fight against the covid19 virus.
She said the exposure risks carried by individuals vary too much.
In the UK, two separate households can form support bubbles and childcare bubbles. This concept was introduced in June 2020.
Guidance on the UK government s website (https://www.gov.uk/) says, Once you’re in a support bubble, you can think of yourself as being in one ‘household.’ This means you can have close contact with the other household in your bubble as if they were members of your own household.