As the United Kingdom records another staggering 24-hour coronavirus case record of over 26,000 people diagnosed statistics show the nation is not alone as Europe's second wave takes hold and 19 other nations report record daily highs.
Health authorities across Europe are worried about hospital bed and ICU capacity as COVID-19 cases soar.
"If the rhythm of the past week continues, rescheduling and suspending some non-priority activities will become unavoidable," Julio Pascual, medical director at Barcelona's Hospital del Mar, told Reuters. "We have hit a wall on clinical beds," Wouter van der Horst, spokesman for the Dutch hospital association NVZ, said.As hospital admissions have spiralled, much attention has been focused on intensive care units, which came close to being overwhelmed in many areas during the first wave of the crisis.
The ECDC said that some 19 per cent of patients diagnosed with COVID-19 are estimated to have ended up in hospital and eight per cent of those could require intensive care, but variations are wide both across Europe and within individual countries.
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