Close to 80% of Manila intensive care beds have been used in the second week of strengthening community isolation

　　(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) In the second week of strengthening community isolation, nearly 80% of Manila intensive care beds have been used

　　China News Agency, Manila, April 5 (Reporter Guan Xiangdong) On April 5, local time, the Philippine capital Metro Manila and the adjacent four provinces of Bulacan, Cavite, Neihu and Rizal implemented the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ). ) The first day of the second week.

Previously, the above-mentioned areas had implemented a week of Comprehensive Community Quarantine (GCQ) and a week of ECQ.

　　At 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, the Philippine Ministry of Health reported that there were 8355 new infections in the country, and the total number of confirmed cases reached 803,398, of which 143,726 were active cases.

On April 4, 21% of the 21,537 people tested tested positive.

　　At the same time, all-Philippines medical facilities are in a hurry.

Among them, 79% of the 1,900 intensive care beds in the Metro Manila Regional Hospital, 72% of the 13,500 isolation beds, 60% of the 6,000 ward beds, and 61% of the 2,000 ventilators used to treat patients with COVID-19 are already in use.

　　Philippine Presidential Spokesperson Harry Locke stated at a press conference that day that it was precisely in order to maintain the hospital's critical care capacity that the government decided to extend the ECQ for the first week by one week, "it is necessary to give the hospital a breathing space."

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