Portugal will receive further help from its European Union partners to ease pressure on its hospitals overwhelmed by the pandemic. France and Luxembourg are the latest countries to offer medical personnel.
According to the Portuguese Ministry of Health, France will send a doctor and three nurses, and Luxembourg two doctors and two nurses. Reinforcements will arrive next week, the department explained in a statement Thursday night.
The German army had already sent eight doctors and 18 nurses to a hospital in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, earlier this month.
The number of COVID-19 patients hospitalized and in intensive care fell on Wednesday for the third day in a row, but the national average of seven-day deaths remained the highest in the world, at 1.97 per 100,000 inhabitants, according to the University. Johns Hopkins.
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