Increase in emergency calls seen as coronavirus surges

Increase in emergency calls seen as coronavirus surges

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As coronavirus cases rise here in north alabama -- so do calls to emergency medical services.

Waay-31's bridget divers is live outside huntsville hospital with more information on the increase in calls for ems. bridget?

Dan -- huntsville emergency medical services have seen an increase in calls.

Last week alone they responded to almost 200 calls a day -- and were transporting around one hundred fifty people.

It's been even busier this week.

With ems workers responding to around two hundred twenty calls a day.

And a third of those calls are coronairus related.

"it's just been a very busy time and right now about 30% of the calls we're going on are presenting as they are we either know they're covid patients or they have covid-like symptoms. so there's no doubt in our minds that we're seeing a lot of this disease in our community" now about eighteen hemsi employees are out with coronavirus -- that's about seven percent of their workforce.

Five or six of those employees should be able to return to work next week, live outside huntsville hospital, bridget divers, waay-31 news.