Only 75 free intensive care beds are left for patients with Covid-19 in Sofia

There are only 75 vacant intensive care beds for patients with Covid-19 in Sofia. This is according to a report of the regional health authorities, as the data are up to date in the late afternoon of January 14, BNR reports. The capital employs 1,105 out of a total of 1,878 hospitals for patients with coronavirus. 215 of the patients are in serious condition. In the coming days, the regional health inspectorate in the capital is expected to issue an order to increase the number of beds for patients with the virus. Mathematicians have warned that if cases grow at this rate, Bulgaria could enter a fourth, critical phase, according to a plan to tackle the government’s pandemic by the end of the month. This means that more than 80 percent of the intensive care beds will be occupied and there may be a lockdown and the closure of schools, Nova TV reported. According to the mathematical model, in five days 2 of the 6 zones into which Bulgaria is divided will have 50% occupancy of intensive care beds. We are talking about the North-West and the North-East region. At the same time, in-service training for students in the North Central Region must be stopped altogether, because intensive beds there will have reached a critical 80%. At the same time, the Ministry of Health announced that yesterday in the National Reference Laboratory “Influenza and ARI” 4 Real Influenza A (H3N2) viruses were detected by Real Time RT-PCR in clinical trials of patients hospitalized in Zlatograd Hospital.