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OCTOBER 26, 202011:07 AMUPDATED 6 HOURS AGO
UPDATE 1-Belgian hospitals could run out of intensive care beds in 15 days
By Marine Strauss
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BRUSSELS, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Belgium could run out of beds in intensive care units within two weeks if the number of people in hospitals continues to increase at its current rate, an official said on Monday.
The nation of 11 million people has Europe’s second highest infection rate per capita after the Czech Republic, with new cases doubling every 13 days and hitting a peak of more than 18,000 on Oct. 20, almost a 10-fold increase from the high of the spring wave of the pandemic.
The number of patients in intensive care units (ICUs) is doubling every eight days - to 757 as of Sunday - with 4,827 people in hospitals.
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