BBC News
By Alison Roberts
image captionGermany sent 26 medics, ventilators and field hospital beds to help Portugal on Wednesday
The sight of a German military plane touching down in Lisbon on Wednesday, carrying intensive care specialists and ventilators to help save lives in Portugal s embattled hospitals, recalls the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe.
Last spring, when Italy was overwhelmed by the first wave of infections, it was helped out by several other European countries taking in patients - even if many Italians felt it was too little, too late.
Now, almost a year on, it is Portugal s turn.