Denmark and Belgium have sent medical personnel to Slovakia, which has one of the highest Covid-19 death rates in the world, local TASR news agency reported on Friday.
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From Saturday, the town of Banska Bystrica in central Slovakia will host three doctors and five nurses from Denmark, as well as two Belgian doctors and a nurse, said Deputy Health Minister Peter Stachura. "
I think that with this help we will be able to stabilize the situation in Slovakia and we will not have to transfer patients outside Slovakia
", said Peter Stachura quoted by TASR. Previously, Slovakia hosted for three weeks 14 members of a Romanian medical team who arrived to support intensive care units. Slovakia, a country of 5.4 million people, currently has 3,800 patients hospitalized with Covid, while the total death toll from the disease has reached 8,346.