Intensive care bed capacity in Portugal at 70%

Intensive care bed capacity in Portugal has reached 70%, reports SIC television today, adding that specialists say “in spite of this being worrying, the country is far from a situation of rupture”. With levels of positivity for the the virus running at 427 cases per 100,000, Rt has been slowly falling and is now on 1.07. The Delta variant is the one most frequently identified in positive cases. People entering hospital tend to be in their 40s and 50s, though fatalities are still in the main in patients over the age of 60/ 70.