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Portuguese event switches to Estoril for 2021
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Organisers of the World Touring Car Cup have confirmed the Portuguese event planned for next month will be moved from the streets of Vila Real to Estoril.
Government restrictions on mass gatherings as a result of the ongoing fight against COVID-19 have prevented the Vila Real street race from taking place for a second successive season, although the venue will return to the schedule next year thanks to a new three-year deal that will come into force from 2022.
Estoril will now host round two of the season on the same weekend of 26/27 June, with the change of venue having been approved by the FIA.
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LISBON (Reuters) - Hospitals in Lisbon flooded with COVID-19 patients are at risk of failing to meet soaring demand for oxygen, the head of Portugal’s doctors association said as Germany sent military medics to the country to evaluate how they can help.
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Portugal, with a confirmed total of 668,951 cases and 11,305 deaths including a record 293 dead on Wednesday, is struggling to handle a record surge in infections.
Hospitals are using two-thirds of their intensive care beds for COVID-19 patients and military hospitals are converting cafeterias into wards.
More than 20 ambulances with COVID-19 patients queued outside Portugal’s largest hospital, the Santa Maria in Lisbon, on Wednesday evening as they waited for beds to become available, according to a Reuters witness.
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LISBON (Reuters) - Hospitals in Lisbon flooded with COVID-19 patients are at risk of failing to meet soaring demand for oxygen, the head of Portugal’s doctors association said as Germany sent military medics to the country to evaluate how they can help.
Slideshow ( 5 images )
Portugal, with a confirmed total of 668,951 cases and 11,305 deaths including a record 293 dead on Wednesday, is struggling to handle a record surge in infections.
Hospitals are using two-thirds of their intensive care beds for COVID-19 patients and military hospitals are converting cafeterias into wards.
More than 20 ambulances with COVID-19 patients queued outside Portugal’s largest hospital, the Santa Maria in Lisbon, on Wednesday evening as they waited for beds to become available, according to a Reuters witness.
A look at South Africa’s new Covid-19 ‘module’ facility – which was built in just months
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Construction company Concor recently completed a fast-tracked Covid-19 facility at Jubilee Hospital, using innovative building technology.
The facility was handed over to the hospital on 27 November 2020, with work having begun on-site just five months earlier in June.
The project in Hammanskraal north of Pretoria features over ten modular units, adding another 300 beds to care for Covid-19 patients for the Gauteng Department of Health.
The facility comprises five 25-bed intensive care unit (ICU) modules – complete with a two-bed isolation ward – and five 35-bed high care modules.