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A substantial structural increase in the number of beds in intensive care units, for example to the level of Germany, is not a good idea, according to chairman Diederik Gommers of the Dutch Association for Intensive Care (NVIC). “Apart from the fact that we don’t have the people for that; it will be priceless, ”he says in an interview with the specialist magazine Skipr Quarterly.

“You cannot be fully prepared for a pandemic like this,” said Gommers. As far as he is concerned, it is a good idea to bet on “better disaster scenarios to be better prepared from now on.” Expanding the IC capacity and flexible deployment of extra personnel can be solutions. “But just keeping more ic beds in the air is not a good plan for the future,” says the chairman.

In the interview, Gommers is also skeptical about more centralized management. “When I hear that there is an increasing desire in politics to disrupt the system, I hold my heart,” he says.

‘Germany in lockdown until the beginning of April’

German Chancellor Angela Merkel expects her country to be in lockdown until the beginning of April to prevent the spread of the corona virus. According to the newspaper Bild, she said this to MPs from her party CDU / CSU.

“If we fail to stop the British variant of the virus, we will have ten times as many cases by Easter. We still need eight to ten weeks of tough measures, ”Merkel said according to the newspaper.

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the German counterpart of the RIVM, reported 12,802 new cases on Tuesday morning. That is a slight increase compared to the day before, when the RKI reported 12,497 new cases.

In total, the coronavirus has been diagnosed in 1,933,826 people in Germany since the start of the pandemic and at least 41,577 Germans have died from the effects of Covid-19.

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