COVID Hospitalizations Surging: System Near Being Overwhelmed

COVID-19 cases are surging in the Belize and Orange Walk Districts - and tonight the KHMH ICU is at capacity.

The Director Of Health Services has confirmed that COVID patients are using 9 beds at the KHMH; while the ICU unit only has 8 beds - so we assume the KHMH has once again activated its surge plan.

Three patients are currently on ventilators.

At the Northern Regional Hospital 9 patients now hospitalized in the Covid unit, even though some of them are pending results.

The message from all that is that the system is very near being overwhelmed.

In last night's public information posting, the Director of Health services warned, quote, "the numbers can only increase given the increasing numbers being reported daily."