Ms Frauke Ossig:

Most of the people we are able to reach and whose lives we can save come from contexts where there is no possibility of vaccination. All our staff on the boat are vaccinated as well as the maritime crew handling the boat. For the survivors we have arranged a separate corner where there is a good airflow. They are separated, especially the women and children are separated, from the other men. They are only visited and treated by a reduced number of our medical team. We cannot fully treat, so we would medically evacuate people who develop severe Covid-19. Up to now we have been lucky on all rotations to have had people who were mainly asymptomatic or had very mild symptoms so we could have them remain on the boat. If someone developed into a stage where it is more severe then we would try to medically evacuate with the help of the Italian or the Maltese coastguard.