As the number of Covid positive cases and recovery rate run parallel in India, Japan is now bracing against more infectious variants of the Wuhan virus which many experts are calling the fourth wave. This has now overwhelmed hospital resources in the Asian country with the healthcare system on the verge of collapse.
Also, the hope of holding the Olympic Games in just over 10 weeks now looks very bleak, as the vaccination campaign struggles to build up steam.
Yasutoshi Kido, a professor at Osaka City University’s Graduate School of Medicine, said, “Compared to the number of infections, the number of beds for severe cases is very limited in Japan,”.
According to Kido, hospitals in Osaka are so overwhelmed that they are turning away cancer and heart disease patients as the number of Covid-19 cases has risen up and medical resources had “almost collapsed”.
Osaka’s governor, Hirofumi Yoshimura, has asked the medical association to arrange visits to housebound patients as the number of deaths at home has risen amid the shortage of hospital beds.
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