Greek Health System at its Limits as ICU Units Fill Up

Greece’s recent spike in intubated patients with the coronavirus has led to a strain on the county’s health system. As patients fill up Greece’s ICU units, hospitals, especially in Northern Greece, are reaching capacity.
Attica, home to Greece’s capital city of Athens, has a total of 27 empty beds for coronavirus patients, and 103 people are currently being treated in the hospital.
Central Macedonia, where Thessaloniki, the second-most populous city in Greece, is located, has witnessed a sharp increase in covid cases recently. There, 88 patients with covid are being treated, leaving only 10 beds for other patients with the virus available.
Hospitals around the country are now left to make room for covid patients by freeing up beds in other departments of the hospital.
In the Central Greek city of Larissa, there are currently no empty beds in the Covid-19 units. The hospitals there decided to create room for more covid patients by taking empty beds from the cardiology unit.
In total, 1,854 people with the virus are being treated in Greek hospitals, 234 of whom are in ICU units, as of Friday.
On Friday, 2,448 cases of the virus were diagnosed in Greece, and out of the total 292 people with the virus who were admitted to the hospital on Friday, a record-breaking 196 patients were intubated in the country.
The record for the highest number of cases recorded in one day was broken just the day before, Thursday, when a startling 2,917 cases were diagnosed in Greece.
Of the 196 intubated patients on Friday, 79 are between the ages of 40 to 64, and just three are in the range of 19 to 39 years old.