German Patient Airlifts Start as Covid Wave Strains Hospitals
- Cases at record levels, new variant from Africa a fresh threat
- Air Force to fly patients from hospitals that are at capacity
Doctors and nurses work in the Covid-19 intensive care unit at University Hospital Leipzig, on Nov. 18.
Photographer: Jens Schlueter/Getty Images
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German health authorities warned that the current wave of Covid-19 cases may swamp the nation’s health-care system if residents don’t act quickly to reduce their contacts.
The military is starting the transfer of intensive-care patients within the country from areas whose hospital capacity is the most strained, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.