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According to the French Health Minister, the spread of the coronavirus epidemic has slowed down in France, but it would be too early to draw conclusions from the general quarantine announced ten days ago.
Thanks to the measures taken, “a slowdown in the spread of the epidemic can be observed, but it is too early to draw conclusions from the closure,” he said this Sunday. Olivier Véran on France Inter public radio, while the death toll rose to more than 40,000 the day before, and the number of cases per day broke another record of more than 60,000 on Friday.
The minister said that the closure of restaurants and bars in large cities and the night curfew in the two weeks prior to the general quarantine were effective but not sufficient. Last week, the number of cases increased by only 20 percent after a much more pronounced increase in the previous weeks.
According to Olivier Véran, if the government had not ordered a greater tightening, the epidemic would have spread even faster and with greater force, and the consequences for health would have been even more tragic than at present. He recalled that while more than 30,000 have lost their lives in the first wave, 9,000 have lost their lives in the current wave and there are currently 4,400 seriously ill patients in hospitals.
“By the end of next week, we will have reliable data to assess the situation, but patient admissions to hospitals and intensive care units will certainly increase in the coming days, as current figures still reflect the pre-closure epidemiological situation,” he pointed. the attention.
According to a preliminary government announcement, the second wave of the epidemic will peak in mid-November with some 6,000 seriously ill patients.
France had 5,200 intensive beds at the beginning of the second wave, which gradually expanded to 6,400, which could be further increased to 7,500. If French healthcare were to be cared for exclusively by coronavirus patients, intensive care units could also receive 10,500 seriously ill patients.
The region most affected by the epidemic is currently the central part of the country, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, based in Lyon. Here, hospital admissions doubled in a month, leading to the transfer of some of the stable patients to hospitals in Brittany, in the west of the country. So far, 61 patients have been transported and, as a precautionary measure, a total of 200 patients are expected to be evacuated before the peak so that a large number of critically ill patients, expected to arrive next week, have enough space in hospitals around Lyon.
A government spokesman, for his part, has ruled out that the government plans to impose emergency measures on the older age group.
“There is no question that we want mandatory segregation for the elderly,” he said. Gabriel Attal on Cnews news television. “Firstly, it would be ethically complicated, and secondly, many people have a poor view of the situation of many older people who do not live alone and who often have several generations living together in the same apartment in a family,” he added . The government spokesman also recalled that a third of those currently in intensive care units are under the age of 60. (MTI)
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