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Saturday lands of the united states Air force plane in Cologne. It has been in the Italian Bergamo to retrieve the six seriously ill koronapasienter.
– In times where the distress is great, it is a matter of course that we help our friends, ” says defence minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.
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In Italy, the virus raged for several weeks now. The north of the country, and not least in the alpebyen Bergamo, is it bad with crowded hospitals and the morgue. Any help is come already, including from Russia. But now the report is that nurses and doctors die of koronasmitten.
the Number of dead koronasmittede doctors was Friday, the top 44. Almost 6500 health care worker is infected, according to the Italian health authorities. WHOs europadirektør His Kluge said earlier this week that one in ten of the infected is a health worker.
In the plane that is sent to Bergamo, there is space for many patients.
Photo: Bundeswehr/kevin Schrief / Reuters
Now is Italian sourced in Bergamo and flown to Cologne to be brought on to the different hospitals in the region.
Also, France will help
Saturday relieved a militærhelikopter from the French city of Metz, in the northeast of the country. On board were two patients who were going to a hospital in the German Essen. Already on Thursday, had the French military sent an informal request for support, writes the German Spiegel.
Germany also has their sick and infected to take care of, but the outbreak there has been far less than in countries such as Italy, Spain and France.
Thus they have the capacity to help, to help the French defence minister thanked warmly for.
– I want to say a big thank you to our German friends, writes Florence center parly on Twitter. And she gets the reply from his German colleague.
Dear Florence, we stand together in this humanitarian crisis, writes Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.
Medical personnel carrying a patient on a stretcher into a helicopter in the French Metz. The patient should go to a hospital in Essen, Germany.
Photo: Jean-christophe Verhaegen / AFP Calls for foreign doctors
The German authorities say they have hospital beds and enough equipment, but that they lack the personnel. In the state of Saxony has the health authorities called for help.
– the Foreign doctors who have not yet received approval for a license to practice, can help with koronapleie, they write on Facebook.
Already a few days after that etterlysningen was out had several hundred signed up, writes news agency Reuters.
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Greece, on their side, have called and begged the EU for help to prepare for the dreaded virus comes to the country from refugee camps. On islands such as Lesbos, Chios and Samos are several tens of thousands of refugees and migrants gathered under miserable conditions.
An outbreak will have devastating consequences, says migrasjonsminister Giorgos Koumoutsakos. He said that several of the most vulnerable people had been moved from the islands and onto the mainland. It is also introduced strict limits on how those living in the camps are allowed to move.
Read also: Fear koronakatastrofe in refugee camp
A spokesman for the EUROPEAN commission said earlier this week that efforts are being made to prepare the measures.
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