Even as Germany begins easing curbs on public life, authorities are busy ramping up hopsital bed capacity to deal with a second wave of infections. FRANKFURT: Left empty as the coronavirus pandemic forced events to be cancelled, Berlin's exhibition centre Messe is getting a makeover with the help of German soldiers - to reemerge as a hospital in a few weeks' time.
Virologist Christian Drosten of Berlin's Charite hospital has also warned that the virus could return with a"totally different force"."The virus will continue to spread in the course of the next weeks and months," Drosten told public broadcaster NDR, adding that a second wave would be dangerous as it could pop up"everywhere at the same time".
"We are ready to react dynamically," said Gernot Marx, director of intensive care at the hospital, which treated some of the first serious cases earlier this year. "In the coming months, we plan to keep around 20 per cent of our beds with respiratory assistance free, and we want to be able to free up a further 20 per cent at 72 hours notice ... if a second wave comes," Gass told AFP.
While that figure is rising, it remains far below that of other countries such as Spain or Italy, where the death rate hovers at 10 per cent.
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