3.5 As COVID-19 spread, hospitals came under strain I te horapa o te KOWHEORI-19, ka poke ngā hōhipera
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3.5. As COVID-19 spread, hospitals came under strain | I te horapa o te KOWHEORI-19, ka poke ngā hōhipera
As the virus spread, hospitals came under strain due to an influx of the worst-affected people (Figure 8). Sweden, the United Kingdom and Italy saw peaks of 200 to 650 hospital patients with COVID-19 per million people. This was a warning for countries that had not yet experienced such outbreaks, like New Zealand and Australia.
Figure 8: COVID-19 hospital occupancy, 2020
Daily hospital occupancy by COVID-19 patients, per million people
Source: Official data collated by Our World in Data (2024) – processed by Our World in Data