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The Berlin Charité is looking at the developments in the third wave of pandemics with great concern.

"If the number of seriously ill Covid patients exceeds the second wave, we come into a critical situation," said Martin Kreis, board member for health care in Germany's largest university hospital.

At the beginning of the year, the high number of severe Covid cases in intensive care units at the Charité had reached an absolute limit.

In January, the Charité was not able to accept all patients from clinics in other federal states that were already overloaded.

However, she herself did not have to move any corona sufferers to other federal states.

"We will continue to do everything in our power to care for patients from the region in Berlin as well," said Kreis.

The number of new entrants to the Charité intensive care units has risen significantly in the past two weeks, said Kreis.

The age group between 30 and 60, who previously had little chance of vaccinations, is particularly affected.

“The trend is clear and it forces us to react,” added the board member.

A reserve intensive care unit was fully reopened.

In addition, predictable operations that can be postponed have been canceled.

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Emergency medics had warned on Friday of an impending overload of the Berlin intensive care units in the third wave of pandemics.

There is already a dramatic burden at the moment, said Steffen Weber-Carstens, medical-scientific director of the register of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (Divi).

In the past three weeks, Berlin had 100 more ventilated Covid patients in intensive care units.

Currently there are around 280. In the Charité alone, which treats the most severe cases, there are 90. An end to the new admissions is not in sight given the increasing number of infections.

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