Rising ICU occupancy rates in Brazil due to Omicro

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Brazil’s Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) released a technical note reporting that a third of all 27 Brazilian states and ten capital cities are in now the intermediate and critical zone for the incidence of the omicron variant of the coronavirus.

The conclusion was reached comparing rates between January 10 with the time series in a survey of COVID-19 ICU beds for adults in the country’s national health care network SUS.

Among the capitals, Fortaleza is said to have 88 percent of ICU beds taken, followed by Recife (80%) , Belo Horizonte (84%) , and Goiânia (94%) in the critical alert zone. Porto Velho (76%), Macapá (60%), Maceió (68%), Salvador (68%), Vitória (77%), and Brasília (74%) fall in the intermediate range.

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