Overwhelmed Czech hospitals transport coronavirus patients abroad

Czech foreign minister Tomas Petricek said six other patients from a different region will be taken to Germany.

Paramedics prepare the transport of a patient with Covid-19 disease from the Usti nad Orlici Hospital, Czech Republic, to the Raciborz Hospital in Poland (Josef Vostarek/AP)

With record numbers of Covid-19 patients filling up intensive care units in the Czech Republic, the first patient to be moved outside of the country was transported to southern Poland on Tuesday.

The 68-year old woman was moved to Raciborz in Poland from a clinic in the town of Usti nad Orlici, in the Pardubice region.