Hospital pressure is increasing with more than 4,000 patients in intensive care and patient transfers outside Île-de-France continue on Sunday.
For his part, Jean Castex said he hoped to exceed the 10 million French people vaccinated on April 15.
Nurses themselves publish a column in the JDD to be able to vaccinate the population.
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As Ile-de-France hospitals approach saturation point, the first three Covid-19 patients in intensive care in Île-de-France were transferred to Nantes, Angers and Le Mans on Saturday, and these transfers will continue on Sunday.
Regarding vaccination, pharmacists are starting to receive doses while nurses publish a column in the
Journal du Dimanche
to be able to do so.
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The main information to remember
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France has passed the threshold of 90,000 deaths from Covid-19
Transfers of intensive care patients outside Ile-de-France continue
Nurses want permission to vaccinate
Italy reconfined from Monday
Three patients transferred outside Île-de-France
The first three Covid-19 patients in intensive care in Ile-de-France will be transferred by helicopter to hospitals in western France on Saturday, Frédéric Adnet, director of the Samu de Seine-Saint-Denis, told AFP.
These patients are transferred to Nantes, Angers and Le Mans.
"At least four other patients" will be transferred on Sunday, he added.
These movements of patients could be made to New Aquitaine.
But logistical details remain to be settled.
"From experience, we know that setting up a medical TGV with 24 patients requires 48 to 72 hours to be fully operational," explains François Braun, president of Samu emergency France.
For more information, you can read our full article here.
More than 4,000 people in intensive care, hospital pressure is increasing
The number of Covid patients in intensive care increased again on Saturday, while hospital pressure remains at a high level, according to figures from Public Health France, which show nearly 30,000 new contaminations.
While the threshold of 4,000 Covid patients in intensive care or intensive care was crossed Friday for the first time since the end of November, this number increased again in 24 hours, to 4,070 on Saturday, including 263 new admissions.
More than a quarter of these patients in shifts (1,100) are in Ile-de-France, where the situation, particularly worrying, pushes the health authorities to organize transfers of patients to other regions.
With 1,087 new hospitalizations in 24 hours, there are now 24,671 Covid patients in hospitals in France, down slightly from the previous day. 174 new deaths were recorded at the hospital in 24 hours, bringing the toll to 90,315 people have died from Covid-19 since the start of the epidemic in hospitals and nursing homes, including 65,004 in hospitals.
The 90,000 mark was exceeded on Friday.
The number of new cases of contamination stood at 29,759, against 25,229 the day before and 23,306 a week ago.
The positivity rate (number of people positive for Covid-19 out of all those tested) is up to 7.4%.
New call for vaccination by nurses
The National Order of Nurses called, in a column published by the
Journal du Dimanche
, to give nurses the opportunity to vaccinate French people who so wish.
"While massive deliveries of vaccines are expected from the end of March, do not wait to be overwhelmed to put in place impacting public health measures to support these deliveries throughout the territory", writes its president Patrick Chamboredon in a column co-signed with Gérard Raymond, president of France Assos Santé.
They denounce "the inconsistency of the latest opinion of the Haute Autorité de santé" on this subject, "an all the more blatant inconsistency vis-à-vis the role and skills of nurses, who are recognized players in vaccination and who already have the power to prescribe certain vaccines (especially influenza) ".
"Let us not take the risk of excluding fragile and isolated people from vaccination", urge the two authors.
Pharmacies start to vaccinate
Just over 18,400 pharmacies have volunteered to vaccinate against Covid-19.
7.000 were delivered in doses to start the injections this weekend.
"The waiting lists for vaccination respect the priorities. You must be over 50 years old and have a long-term illness or be over 75 years old. It is from this waiting list that 'then we call the patients ", explains Philippe Besset, of the Federation of Pharmaceutical Unions, at the microphone of Europe 1. For him," there will be 70,000 people vaccinated by pharmacists at the end of this weekend or Monday at later".
Europe 1 went to a Valenciennes pharmacy, in Hauts-de-France, which is about to start vaccinating.
France hopes to exceed the target of 10 million people vaccinated against Covid-19 by mid-April, Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Saturday.
"We have set the target of 10 million vaccinations by April 15 and I do not despair of exceeding it. But we have to be careful because the labs do us some trouble in respecting delivery deadlines. adapt, ”he continued.
A simplified health protocol for vaccinated nursing home residents
All vaccinated nursing home residents will be able to leave the establishments without doing tests, announced in the columns of
Parisian
Brigitte Bourguignon, the Minister in charge of Autonomy, who has just published a light health protocol.
For the moment, 87% of residents have received their first injection, 62% the second.
Inside the establishments, collective activities are again authorized, the doors of the rooms "open to families" and the Plexiglas walls removed.
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Much of Italy will be reconfigured from Monday
Italy, faced in the words of Prime Minister Mario Draghi with a "new wave of contagions" more than a year after the start of the pandemic, will reconfine from Monday a large part of its territory.
The government therefore adopted on Friday in the Council of Ministers new anti-Covid measures for the period from Monday March 15 to April 6, deciding in particular that the regions registering a number greater than 250 new cases per week will automatically pass into the red zone (level the highest risk corresponding to the most drastic restrictions).
Classification in the red zone, according to the color code in force for several months, leads to the closure of schools, colleges, high schools and universities, as well as bars and restaurants except for take-out.
Travel is limited to work requirements, the purchase of basic necessities and health emergencies.
The most populated regions of the peninsula, in particular Lombardy, the economic heart of the country, and Lazio, the region of Rome, are concerned.
More than 2.6 million deaths worldwide
The pandemic has killed more than 2.64 million people worldwide since the start of the pandemic, according to a report established by AFP from official sources on Saturday midday.
The United States is the country with the most deaths with 532,590 deaths, followed by Brazil (275,105), Mexico (193,851), India (158,446), and the United Kingdom (125,343).
These figures, which are based on the daily reports of the health authorities without including the reassessments based on statistical bases, are generally underestimated.