On Tuesday, April 7, Spain's
coronavirus daily death toll rose, after falling for 4 straight days. 743
deaths were recorded, taking Spain's total tally of deaths to 13,798. 5,478 new
cases were recorded - a 4.1% rise - taking the total number of confirmed
infections to 140,510. On Monday, the number of new cases only rose by
3.3%.
Mari Angels Rodriguez, a nurse at
the Hospital Josep Trueta hospital in Girona in northeastern Spain told
AFP the workload in the ICUs had decreased.
"The collapse in the first few
days was brutal, everyone was coming to emergency services, all the usual
causes as well as all the possible cases of COVID-19."
"What wears me out the most is
seeing young and middle aged people, without chronic conditions, who
arrive in moderate shape and quickly end up in the intensive care unit
(ICU)."
"The other day a 17-year-old
girl was admitted to hospital and the next day she was in the ICU. It is
full of young people. Psychologically you are not ready for this,"
she added.
"It hits you the speed with
which a patient gets seriously ill. When they start to get bad, it is like
they are drowning, in half an hour they are intubated or are dead."
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