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Prague (dpa) - In the Corona crisis, the Czech Republic is now accepting offers of help from abroad after long hesitation.
The Ministry of Health in Prague announced on Friday afternoon that Germany, Poland and Switzerland had been asked to take over and treat at least a dozen Covid 19 patients.
The reason is the overload of the hospitals, so that the usual treatment standards can no longer be guaranteed.
Specific patients have not yet been selected.
The decision lies with the respective treating doctor.
"We are in a situation in which we never wanted to be," said Health Minister Jan Blatny.
Just a few hours earlier, he had not considered foreign aid immediately necessary.
But the pressure on the hospitals is growing steadily, according to the authorities.
The Czech Republic currently has the highest rate of new infections in the EU, a good ten times as high as in Germany.
According to calculations, more than 800 people per 100,000 inhabitants were infected with the corona virus within seven days.
Since the start of the pandemic, there have been almost 1.3 million detected infections and 21,325 deaths.
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Notice from the Ministry of Health, in Czech