ICU bed occupancy nears last year’s high

Severity of infection noted among many COVID patients

The number of COVID-19 patients currently occupying ICU beds in hospitals across the State is slowly but surely nearing the figures recorded during the peak of the pandemic last year. On Friday, ICU bed occupancy by coronavirus patients in the State’s government and private hospitals stood at 1,677. In August and September last year, when the maximum virus cases were recorded in Telangana, nearly 1,350 to 2,300-plus ICU beds had been occupied. While many people continue to throw caution to the wind and do not observe safety norms, statistics indicate that severity of the disease is still sending coronavirus-positive persons to the ICU.