Hospitals in Montevideo have been saturated by peak in covid cases

The previous death record was recorded on Monday and Tuesday, with 45 deaths per day.

In turn, 3,786 new cases were detected yesterday and the total has risen to 137,946 since March 2020, the news agency said. Europa Press.

There was also a record of active cases, with 32,342 people with the disease, and patients in intensive care, with 453.

Uruguay has seen a significant increase in infections, people in intensive care and deaths from Covid-19 in recent weeks.

The demand for moderate care beds in the covered areas of hospitals has increased in recent days and the health system in the capital, Montevideo, was saturated, according to the newspaper The country.

“There are patients at the emergency gates of health centers who wait more than 24 hours to be transferred to hospitals and there are more than 20 at the gates of hospitals and other places waiting for intensive and intermediate care,” said a doctor in the Uruguayan morning.

Uruguay reached a record 3,935 new positives on Thursday and President Luis Lacalle Pou said the country was going through “the worst times of the coronavirus pandemic.”