Eight French and Italian patients infected with COVID-19 were transferred to hospitals in Germany on Saturday, authorities have confirmed.
Six patients from Lombardy, Italy's worst-hit region, were flown to Cologne on Saturday morning on a German airforce place, the German Defence Ministry confirmed on Twitter.
They were then dispatched to hospitals in Cologne, Bonn and Bochum. Two patients from Metz, eastern France were also flown to Germany, to the city of Essen, also located in the North