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Covid-19 update: Germany to send ventilators, doctors to hard-hit Portugal
Portugal where hospitals are struggling to cope with the worst coronavirus infections surge in the world.Twenty-six health workers, 150 field beds, 50 ventilators and 150 infusions machines will be dispatched to the southern EU nation on Wednesday, Germany's defence ministry said.Also Read | How India can fight vaccine hesitancyPortugal is "in a particularly dramatic situation," said German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer."In such times, solidarity in Europe is indispensable," she added.Portugal had written to Germany for aid on January 25 when the crisis looked far from abating.Some German medical staff will provide back up at a hospital in Lisbon, while others may be deployed to other sites, the ministry said, adding that the