"We are noticing an increasing number of Charité employees who have to go into isolation or quarantine," a Charité spokesman said on Tuesday (Jan. 18, 2022) in response to a dpa query. The maintenance of regular hospital operations is still guaranteed, but the changing situation needs to be responded and adapted to. Therefore, "partial adjustments in the treatment of patients" might be necessary, the spokesman stated. At Charité hospital, certain scheduled operations, treatments and therapies deemed not essential for the patient's survival have been postponed due to the high stress caused by the Coronavirus.