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A woman is being tested for COVID-19 at a temporary testing center in Marseille.
France may face a months-long viral crisis that will overwhelm the country’s healthcare system if nothing changes.
He cautions one of the country’s leading doctors, Patrick Bouet, interviewed in the weekly Le Journal du Dimanche.
– The second wave comes faster than we thought, says the Bouet newspaper, director of the medical association CNOM.
New restrictions have been introduced in parts of the country where the spread of the infection is increasing the most, such as Marseille and the Paris region, which has received criticism and protests from locals.
According to Bouet, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, has not been clear enough when he warned about the consequences of the growing spread of the covid.
– What he did not say is that in three or four weeks, if nothing changes, France will have a widespread outbreak throughout the country, during several long months of autumn and winter, Bouet tells the newspaper.
There will be insufficient staff and the French health system will not be able to meet the requirements. Medical personnel who performed “miracles” this spring will not be able to fill the gaps this time, according to Bouet.
– Many of them are exhausted, traumatized.
On Saturday, just over 14,400 new COVID-19 cases were registered in France, which is slightly less than the 16,000 found on Thursday and Friday, the highest figures recorded per day to date.
In the last week, more than 4,100 people have been hospitalized and 760 of them receive intensive care.
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