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Berlin (dpa / bb) - After the quarantine due to the outbreak of a more contagious coronavirus variant, the Berlin Vivantes Humboldt Clinic wants to take in patients again.
With the beginning of this Thursday there should be again recordings of the rescue center and also the somatic clinics from midnight, it said in a message from Wednesday evening.
That was decided by the Berlin-Reinickendorf health department after consulting the clinic's pandemic staff and the Robert Koch Institute.
It has been proven that virus variants B.1.1.7, which were initially found in Great Britain, and B.1.351, which were reported from South Africa, are not spreading further.
The employees who tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 are also no longer under commuter quarantine between their apartments and the clinic.
The clinical center in the north of Berlin currently cares for 270 patients with its 640 beds.
Hospital operations are to be ramped up in stages, from Monday onwards there will be "urgent, plannable treatments to the full, permissible extent".
These would primarily be oncological operations.
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According to the information, a total of 36 cases of virus variant B.1.1.7 and 2 cases of virus variant B.1.351 were detected.
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Information from Vivantes on the outbreak