European Commission President calls on EU leaders to assist patient transfers.

European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, has called on European leaders to help map intensive care bed capacity to allow the transfer of coronavirus patients from over-crowded hospitals.

Ms. Von der Leyen said reasserting control of the infection rate would require far closer coordination between governments.

The Netherlands has begun air-lifting patients to hospitals in Germany and Belgium is expected to run out of intensive care beds in the next two weeks.