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In the hospitals of the Ile-de-France, Paris region, the “white plan” that had entered into force on the occasion of the first wave of March and that makes it possible “to make immediately available all the instruments supplied to a health center to to cope with a large influx of patients or to cope with an exceptional health situation. ”This means that they will come some non-urgent treatments and interventions postponed. The priority lies in the fight against coronaviruses and “Covid departments” are created, to which personnel from other sectors are also transferred.
Beds in resuscitation
According to data from the Regional Health Agency, last Tuesday 40% of intensive care beds were already occupied by Covid patients, and it will rise to 50% in the next 15 days. This means that hospitals are already in trouble, while the epidemic numbers continue to rise. There are 7563 hospitalized throughout France, of which 1416 in intensive care.
And give
According to data released Wednesday night, the new coronavirus cases registered in 24 hours have gone well 18,746 nationwide. France is participating in a massive testing campaign and the positive case rate reaches 9.1 percent. In the same 24 hours, 80 people died from Covid-19, bringing the total number of victims to 32,000 445 since the beginning of the epidemic.
Macron measurements
On a visit to the flooded areas of southern France on the border with Italy, President Macron announced new restrictions “as in Marseille, Aix-en-Provence and Paris”. “We need to resort to new restrictions in places where the virus is circulating too fast, particularly among the elderly, and where we see a very high hospital bed occupancy rate.” The new measures are expected to be announced at a press conference, scheduled for Thursday night, by Health Minister Olivier Véran. Lyon, Grenoble and Saint-Etienne are likely to reach Marseille, Aix and Paris as “high-alert areas”.
Controversy
Health personnel and many citizens they blame the government for not having advanced since last spring. So the epidemic was a relative surprise, to which we tried to respond as best we could, in the emergency. But a possible second fall wave was considered possible, and meanwhile, intensive care beds have remained the same. That is around 5,000, less than in April when, due to exceptional circumstances, they rose to 7,000. After the crisis, the Ségur agreements between the government and the social partners established an increase of 4,000 resuscitation beds, which has not yet been. In 2019, 3,400 intensive care beds were eliminated.
October 8, 2020 (change October 8, 2020 | 14:37)
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