According to the DIVI intensive care register, almost 17 percent of the intensive care beds in Germany are still free, of the 22,462 intensive care beds, 5491 are occupied by Covid 19 patients.
Of these, 3099 have to be ventilated.
WORLD:
During our last phone call just before Christmas, you were a little worried because you feared that the increased number of holiday contacts would lead to many more Covid admissions in the clinics.
How is it currently?
Stefan Kluge:
We currently have 23 Covid patients in the intensive care unit, eleven of them are supplied with oxygen via an ECMO, the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
We have also had 27 Covid intensive care patients, the numbers fluctuate.
WORLD:
So no holiday effect?