LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal is running out of hospital beds across the public and private sectors, the head of its private hospital association said as the daily COVID-19 death toll reached a record high on Friday for the fifth day in a row.
The country of 10 million people, which fared better than others in the first wave of the pandemic, now has the world's highest seven-day rolling average of new cases.
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