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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The Netherlands started transporting COVID-19 patients across the border to Germany on Tuesday to ease pressure on Dutch hospitals, which are scaling back regular care to deal with a surge in coronavirus cases. A patient was transferred by ambulance from Rotterdam to a hospital in Bochum, some 240 km (150 miles) east, on Tuesday morning, and another would follow later in the day, health authorities said. On Tuesday 488 of a total 1,050 intensive care beds in the Netherlands were being used for COVID-19 patients.

FILE PHOTO: Medics treat a patient infected with COVID-19, in the intensive care unit at Maastricht UMC+ Hospital in Maastricht, Netherlands

The number of COVID-19 patients in Dutch hospitals has swelled to its highest level since May in recent weeks and is expected to increase further as infections jump to record levels. The Dutch health authority on Tuesday said almost a third of all operating theatres in the Netherlands had been closed to limit the use of intensive care beds.

 

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