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Schwerin (dpa / mv) - Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has offered Saxony support in beds for corona patients in view of the high number of infections.

«We want to help Saxony.

The university clinics in Rostock and Greifswald as well as the Südstadtklinikum in Rostock are available.

We are ready to receive.

Preparations are in full swing.

The first patients could come on Tuesday, ”said Health Minister Harry Glawe (CDU) on Monday evening.

According to a ministry spokesman, MV could take in up to ten patients from Saxony.

Saxony asked, MV then signaled their readiness.

The seven-day incidence value in Saxony, i.e. the number of new corona infections per 100,000 inhabitants within one week, is 444.4 according to the Robert Koch Institute (as of Monday, midnight) - in a nationwide comparison by far highest value. According to the State Office for Health and Social Affairs (Lagus), this is currently 97.4 in the northeast.