Hungary is helping the Baltic country fight the epidemic
The Riga leadership last week asked the European Union for help in procuring hundreds of monitors for more than 130 ventilators and vital signs, BNS told the Baltic news agency.
According to Sunday data, 1,526 Covid patients were treated in Latvian hospitals, which has not been the case since the outbreak. The Delfi news portal reported that the lobby of one of Riga’s largest hospitals has also been converted to care for patients. Another hospital in the capital made a 21-bed ward from the ambulance garage to monitor patients. Eighty ventilators were sent to Latvia, according to the Swedish Civil Protection Authority. Six additional ventilators were sent by Finland;
Hungary deals with other health stocks in the Baltics.
The Riga leadership is also considering that apply to the European Union for medical staff, given that there are few hospital workers.
In several Central and Eastern European countries, including Russia, Ukraine, Romania and Poland, the number of people infected rose sharply in the autumn, so the number of people vaccinated remained low.
Latvia was the first European country to announce another national quarantine this autumn, until 15 November.
On October 21, the Riga Cabinet introduced another comprehensive epidemiological restriction and a night curfew to curb the epidemic. The infection rate per hundred thousand inhabitants averages 1,600 and is the rate in the European Union.
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