Luxembourg is bringing a temporary hospital by plane to the country offering 200 beds and 100 respirators.
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rtl.luPosted Mar 19, 2020, 9:49 PM UTC
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rtl.luDoes anyone know where they are coming from?
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Yesterday were several cargolux machines coming from Scotland on Flightradar24 but that’s just a hugely wild guess.
Edit: it comes from Bari, Italy. It’s a deal the government made with the NATO. I am not sure how I should feel about this.
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My brother saw a Cargolux from Baku on Flightradar24.
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That's a regular flight
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The question was just answered by the Prime Minister: Bari, Italy organized by NSPA - NATO Support and Procurement Agency
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Makes sense, Bari is a huge Luxembourg route for tourism so the Lux pilots must know it well.
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NSPA is based in Lux and also in Taranto so maybe it's coming from their other site. Taranto that is not so far from Bari (actually the closed largest airport, other being Brindisi. Actually there is a military one in Taranto but maybe it's not possible to use it)
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good insights !
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I just assumed China but who knows.
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Afaik we had 150 so far and they said yesterday that we ordered 50 more. Not sure if those are included in the 100 Cargolux will bring in.
I fear that at this point our limiting facctor will probably be doctors and medical professionals, not beds..
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You can always requisition staff (first non-hospital doctors, then non-hospital nurses, then (should it come to that) general population) if necessary (should we ever get to that point), but you can't make medicine and material appear out of thin air.
Germany has ordered 10,000 respirators. In Italy, the army is building some.
There should be 50 coming from China together with masks. So it looks like we will double