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In Spain, hospitals pay price for Christmas festivities

Spain Covid-19

Healthcare workers attend to a patient at the Covid-19 Intensive Care Unit of the Hospital Del Mar in Barcelona on January 20, 2021.

Photo credit: Lluis Gene | AFP

By  AFP

Less than a month after Christmas, staff in the intensive care unit at Barcelona's Hospital del Mar are working non-stop.

Electronic bleeps alert them to the multiple needs of patients in their care, most of whom are intubated and unconscious.

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