FILE PHOTO: A patient is carried to the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Cascais Hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Cascais
LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal reported close to half of all its COVID-19 deaths in January, highlighting a severe acceleration in cases that has prompted several European nations to offer help.
Hospitals across the nation of a little more than 10 million appear on the verge of collapse, with ambulances sometimes queuing for hours because of a lack of beds while some health units are struggling to find enough refrigerated space to preserve the bodies of the deceased.
Austria is willing to take intensive-care patients and is waiting for Portuguese authorities to propose how many they want to transfer, the Austrian embassy in Lisbon said.
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LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal’s coronavirus cases passed 100,000 on Monday, with nearly 2,000 new infections in the past 24 hours, days after tough new measures to contain the disease came into force.
FILE PHOTO: Trams are seen in traffic, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Lisbon, Portugal September 10, 2020. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante
“Everyone’s tiredness is legitimate but it cannot legitimise failure,” the secretary of state for health, Antonio Sales, told a news conference. “We continue to depend on each other - and our success is the success of Portugal.”
The nation of just over 10 million people initially won praise for its quick response to the pandemic.
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