Coronavirus leaves Portugal's hospitals in a state of emergency
Overcrowded intensive care units, triage tents outside clinics, skyrocketing death rates — Portugal is getting crushed by the third wave of the coronavirus. Now, even the German army has been called upon to help.
The explosion of infections has caused huge backups at Portugal's hospitals which are filled beyond capacity
You could say that Portugal had a relatively mild bout of COVID-19 in 2020. That all changed at the start of the new year, however, when the seven-day incidence rate exploded. And over the past seven days, almost 850 new coronavirus cases have been recorded for every 100,000 inhabitants. Portuguese health authorities say that some 43% of the country's overall COVID-19 infections and 44% of all related deaths were recorded in the first month of 2021.