The hospital situation has once again deteriorated in Île-de-France this weekend, with now 1,152 patients in intensive care units on Monday evening.
The Ile-de-France establishments had not received as many coronavirus patients since November 13.
The number of Covid-19 patients hospitalized in critical care in Île-de-France reached 1,152 on Monday at 11 a.m. according to the regional health agency (ARS), or more than at the peak of the second epidemic wave, in the fall .
Hospitals and clinics in Ile-de-France had not received as many Covid patients in intensive care since November 13, when the ARS had identified 1,134.
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Faced with this new influx, its director Aurélien Rousseau had given last week "the firm order" to public and private establishments to deprogram 40% of their activities, in order to have as quickly as possible 1,577 critical care beds for the sick only. of the coronavirus.
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Despite this, the government then announced "a hundred" medical evacuations to other regions to avoid overcrowding resuscitations.
Six patients have already been transferred by plane or helicopter on Saturday and Sunday to Pays de la Loire and New Aquitaine.
These air operations were to continue at the rate of six patients per day, before resorting at the end of the week to medicalized TGVs capable of each carrying around twenty patients.