The French authorities have announced a decision to move some of the patients with COVID-19 from Paris hospitals to other cities in the country.
“We are going to transport probably about 100 patients from the capital region of Ile-de-France in a week,” the French media quoted government spokesman Gabriel Attal as saying. At the same time, two patients on Sunday already went from Paris to Bordeaux.
It is planned to evacuate to other cities people undergoing treatment in intensive care units of the capital’s hospitals. For this, the authorities are going to use specially equipped trains.
Currently in France, about 4.1 thousand people with COVID-19 are in intensive care units, with 1.1 thousand of them in Paris and its environs.
In France, strict restrictive measures have been in place for several months to slow the spread of coronavirus infection. Despite this, in recent weeks, the rate of spread of COVID-19 has caused concern among experts. On Saturday, about 30 thousand more cases of infection were detected in France, 174 patients died.