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Magdeburg (dpa) - Saxony-Anhalt will be accepting Covid patients from neighboring federal states in the coming days who themselves have shortages of intensive care beds.

A spokesman for the Interior Ministry said on Thursday in Magdeburg, 30 patients from Saxony and Thuringia are to be relocated within a state appointment at the beginning of next week.

The preparations for this were already under way.

It is currently known that there may be bottlenecks in hospital beds primarily in north and east Saxony, in southern Brandenburg and in Berlin.

In Saxony-Anhalt almost 140 regular intensive care beds are free.

How many of these could be made available to patients in other countries would have to be clarified on a case-by-case basis.

Parallel to the ambulance transports coordinated by the federal states, the clinics themselves also organized permanent transfers of patients between houses, it said.

Halle's mayor Bernd Wiegand (non-party) gave an example of this on Thursday: his city had taken in 15 patients from Saxony.

This would currently care for 115 people in clinics in the city who are sick with Covid-19.

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Brandenburg's Minister of Health Ursula Nonnemacher (Greens) announced in the state parliament that the Corona situation could bring the state to capacity limits in the next one to two weeks.

In this case, Brandenburg wants to declare the shamrock case - similar to Saxony and Thuringia now - ask the neighboring countries to accept corona patients.

She referred to the also tense situation in Saxony and Thuringia: "At the moment there is talk of moving to Saxony-Anhalt."

Weeks ago, the federal states had agreed to help each other with the treatment of corona patients in order to absorb the excessive demands of individual hospitals.

For this, Germany was divided into five regions, which are called clovers.

In the east, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Berlin and Brandenburg form a support region.

The aid is to be organized jointly with the federal government and the armed forces, as the Robert Koch Institute says.