In Lviv, Hospitals Are 95% Full. The Situation in the City Is Tense

The same number of patients is being admitted daily as are being discharged.

Although over the past week the number of registered positive coronavirus cases in Lviv has decreased, the city's hospitals are 95% full. The same number of patients is being admitted daily as are being discharged. This was reported by the press service of the Lviv City Council on its website.

Volodymyr Zub
Head of Health Care, Lviv

If in previous weeks we had 70, 80 and even 100 cases, now we are seeing a certain stabilization. But this does not mean that the situation has started to decline, because a very large number of patients are admitted to our hospitals every day; in fact, occupancy in the city's institutions today stands at 95%. And although we discharge patients every day, the same number are also admitted to us. 

According to Zub, 70 people are in the emergency hospital, of whom 5 are in intensive care and 4 are on ventilators. More than 80 people are in the 1st hospital, and another 70 are in the 8th City Hospital.

He noted that the situation remains tense, so masks remain mandatory, as does social distancing. These rules must be observed on public transport, in shops and at sports grounds.

As of 3 July, 5,882 cases of coronavirus have been registered in Lviv Oblast, of which 157 have been fatal and 873 are recovered patients.