Patients wait for days to be given hospital beds

As more and more people in the country fall ill with the coronavirus, the waiting time to move from the emergency room to a ward dedicated for Covid-19 patients is about two to three days, an emergency medicine specialist said.

Dr Pauline Convocar on Tuesday said emergency room (ER) doctors saw a “sustained increase” in Covid-19 infections as early as mid-July, although the ER-to-ward movement, until last week, took only an average of 24 hours.