UPDATE 1-German military to send medical staff and equipment to Portugal
By Reuters Staff (Adds Austrian pledge to take intensive-care patients) BERLIN, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Germany’s military will send medical staff and equipment to Portugal, where space in hospital intensive care units is running out after a surge in coronavirus infections, the defence ministry in Berlin said on Sunday. Portugal, which said on Saturday that only seven of 850 ICU beds set up for COVID-19 cases on its mainland were vacant, had asked the German government for help. “We will support...
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