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Hospitals in Peru under pressure from Covid-19 second wave

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Lima, Jan 15 (EFE).- Intensive care units at hospitals across Peru were packed with Covid-19 patients Friday as the numbers of deaths and new infections reached levels not seen in months.The number of people on assisted breathing in ICUs reached 1,553, the same as on Aug. 13, when Peru set a new record for patients hooked up to ventilators.That statistic came from the head of the EsSalud public health service, Fiorella Molinelli, who said that while ICUs are at roughly 90 percent capacity on average, hospitals in areas already experiencing the impact of the second wave of the pandemic are nearly full. (Camera: MIKHAIL HUACAN). SHOT LIST: INTENSIVE CARE UNITS AT A HOSPITAL IN LIMA, PERU.SOUND BITES: DR. CARMEN ZARATE, CHIEF OF THE ICU AT SABOGAL (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATION: It is very sad to turn away patients who can't enter intensive care and not even be able to refer them elsewhere because there are no beds in other hospitals either.

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