Corona hotspot in the canton of Friborg – view

The canton of Friborg is one of the regions most affected by the coronavirus in Europe. In the last two weeks alone, 5,786 new cases were registered. In early November, the chief physician Nicolas Blondel launched a dramatic appeal through social media: “An ambulance arrives at the hospital every quarter of an hour.” The army sent help. Around 50 medical soldiers have recently been deployed to support the Cantonal Hospital in Freiburg.

Although the hospital was accused of scare tactics by skeptics of the crown, the medical director, Ronald Vonlanthen, believes that the call from his colleague was justified. “That Monday we had an extreme emergency situation,” he tells “Watson.” Suddenly this flood of Covid patients arrived. “It was exactly the situation we feared. “People were lying in the hallways,” he says, images previously only known from disaster drills.