BEIRUT – Death stalks the corridors of Beirut's Rafik Hariri University Hospital, where losing multiple patients in one day to COVID-19 has become the new normal.
On Friday, the mood among the staff was even more solemn as a young woman lost the battle with the virus. There was silence as the woman, barely in her 30s, drew her last breath.
Then a brief commotion. The nurses frantically tried to resuscitate her. Finally, exhausted, they silently removed the oxygen mask and the tubes — and covered the body with a brown blanket.