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Two French cantons can no longer cope with the pandemic on their own. The Federal Council reports this morning on a new deployment of the army due to Corona.
Déjà-vu: A medical soldier at the Corona mission, here on April 8, 2020 at the HFR Hospital in Freiburg.
KEYSTONE / Alessandro della Valle
As in the first wave, the Swiss army will again deploy against the pandemic. The canton of Friborg submitted an application to the federal government on Tuesday. The cantonal government of Freiburg has come to the conclusion that it will no longer be able to cope with the pandemic without troops. More Covid patients are already in hospital care in Freiburg than in the first wave.
The situation is obviously urgent: the cantonal government He has asked the federal government to make military assistants available over the coming weekend for patient care, transportation and other logistics services. The canton wants assistants to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Around 30 soldiers are supposed to support hospital staff per shift. The Federal Council will take up the application at its meeting this morning. Several informed people confirm this to this newspaper.
The canton of Friborg is currently one of the most affected cantons. In the last 14 days, 1,333 confirmed infections per 100,000 inhabitants were registered in the canton. Single the Wallis and of the Jura has even more Covid cases.
Geneva’s health director, Mauro Poggia (MCG), also confirmed to this newspaper upon request that Geneva had requested the federal government to use medical troops. The details of this application are currently unknown.
More patients than in spring
Didier Page, Head of Communications of the Friborg Security Directorate, speaks of a “tense situation” im Freiburg Hospital. They still have capabilities for the admission of corona patients. But the The limit of 89 patients with crown reached in the spring has already been exceeded with currently 95 hospitalizations. Additionally, some staff members were infected with the virus, creating additional bottlenecks. “Help from the military would lead to some relaxation,” Page said.
In the first wave Corona closesr larger Mobile manufacturing of the Swiss army since WITHcome the wide world war. The Federal Council had on March 16 dand army deployment decided that up to 6,000 soldiers would be deployed at the same time. The soldiers supported the civil authorities, namely the hospitals, but also the border guard corps and the cantonal police force. The last soldiers were released from their Corona mission on June 30. Now, four months later, the army needs him again.
