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French Health Minister Olivier Véran said that the spread of the coronavirus epidemic had slowed down in France, but that 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 about the closure,” the head of the ministry told French public radio on Sunday. broke another record by more than 60,000.
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. The number of cases has increased only 20 percent in the last week, after a much more significant increase in the previous weeks, the government member emphasized.
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 continue to rise in the coming days, as current figures reflect the epidemiological situation prior to closure, he said. .
A second wave of the epidemic will culminate in mid-November with some 6,000 seriously ill people, according to a preliminary government announcement.
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 transferred and the precautionary measure plans to evacuate a total of 200 patients before the peak so that a large number of seriously ill patients, expected to arrive next week, have enough space in the hospitals of the surroundings of 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 doubt that we want mandatory segregation for the elderly.
Gabriel Attal said on Cnews news television.
First, it would be ethically complicated, and second, 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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