A German military plane carrying 26 healthcare workers, 50 ventilators and other medical equipment touched down in Portugal on Wednesday to help the country deal with its devastating COVID-19 situation.
The German medical team, specializing in critical care, will look after a new eight-bed intensive care unit in a private hospital in Lisbon.
"Eight beds may not sound like a lot, but it is for a health system under significant pressure," Portuguese Health Minister Marta Temido told reporters, thanking the German government for its assistance.
Portugal's hospitals, particularly in the Lisbon area, have been under massive pressure for weeks, after the Christmas holidays coincided with a surge of the more contagious UK variant of the coronavirus.
Last week, Temido said the UK variant was behind almost 50% of infections in Portugal's capital region...
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