200 additional patients from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes will be transferred to other regions in the next 15 days.

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PATRICK HERTZOG / AFP

The Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is considering 200 new transfers of coronavirus patients to relieve congestion in hospitals where coronavirus patients are flocking, its director general, Jean-Yves Grall, said on franceinfo on Sunday.

"In one month, we have six-folded the number of hospitalized patients and we have greatly increased the number of intensive care patients, forcing us to adapt and anticipate in order to permanently maintain a mattress of beds available", he declared.

While the epidemic continues to progress, with a regional incidence rate of over 860 per 100,000 inhabitants, the increase in hospitalizations has already led, since October 23, to the transfer of 61 patients from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes to other regions - Grand-Est, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Pays-de-la-Loire and Brittany - in order to avoid saturation.

"Too early" to judge the effect of the reconfinement

A strategy destined to continue: "We are planning nearly 200 transfers between the next two weeks, to make it possible to cope with this continuous increase in patients in intensive care," added the director of the ARS.

Jean-Yves Grall also judged that it was still "a little early to judge the effect of the re-containment": "In any event, the effect on hospitalizations will be ten days later. , since between the moment of contamination and hospitalization, this delay is observed.

So for the moment we have in front of us 15 days, whatever happens, very difficult on the hospitalization ”, he concluded.

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