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The occupancy fee of ICU beds peaked this 7 days in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, reaching 96% occupancy on Sunday, according to data from the Health Secretary of the Point out.

As of Sunday, the town has 616 ICU beds focused to Covid-19 care.

Hospitals throughout the region have confronted an ICU occupancy crisis as variants of the virus spread and the vaccine is slowly and gradually rolled out.

The mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes, introduced that new restrictive measures went into outcome on Friday such as folks not currently being authorized on the road concerning 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. nearby time, confined several hours of operation for bars and dining establishments and a ban on activities or get-togethers in public and personal parts, among the other folks.

The mayor emphasised that the new measures ended up taken preventively, to prevent anything more rigid, these as a entire lockdown.

Even though the ICU occupancy fee for the point out of Rio is all-around 73%, 8 other of its metropolitan areas have previously collapsed. Bom Jesus, Miracema, Paraíba do Sul, Rio das Ostras, Saquarema, Sapucaia, Teresópolis and Três Rios have all run out of ICU beds, according to the Rio condition well being secretary data.

CNN has asked the federal government what measures are currently being taken to handle the attainable collapse of healthcare in the metropolis of Rio de Janeiro, but has not read back.

Rio de Janeiro condition has almost 600,000 instances of Covid-19 verified and 33,717 fatalities, in accordance to its health and fitness secretary on Sunday.