Ile-de-France hospitals are on the verge of saturation (illustration) -

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  • Bruno Riou, crisis medical director of Public Assistance-Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP), believes that if the situation of hospitals in the Paris region "is not yet out of control, it will be".

  • Believing that the current strategy had only made it possible "to partially contain the exponential progression" of the virus, in particular because of the diffusion of variants, he assured that it was necessary to "review the strategy".

  • "It is up to the government to decide" but "today, we can no longer exclude anything" and "in terms of responsibility, if the measures are justified, if they are proportionate and accompanied, I will not oppose them", a announced for her part the president of the region, Valérie Pécresse.

The situation of hospitals in Ile-de-France facing the Covid-19 "is not yet out of control but it will be", estimated Monday Bruno Riou, medical director of crisis of Public Assistance-Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP).

"I hear a lot say that a week without confinement is a week gained, I do not have the same analysis, for me it is a week lost," said Professor Riou on France Inter, also estimating that the Transfers of patients to other regions would not make it possible to resolve the threatening saturation.

“There are only two treatments that are known to be effective today against the epidemic, containment and vaccination.

And the vaccination will only have effects in several months, whereas here, we are reasoning in terms of weeks, ”he added.

Believing that the current strategy had only made it possible "to partially contain the exponential progression" of the virus, in particular because of the diffusion of variants, he assured that it was necessary to "review the strategy".

Towards strict containment?

A point of view shared by the president (Libres!) Of Ile-de-France, Valérie Pécresse.

“I don't believe in this debate about whether to re-limit or part of the week or the weekend.

If it is necessary to reconfine, I fear that it is a strict containment which one must prepare oneself, warned the deputy president of the deputies En Marche on Radio J. “This is the reason why it must remain an ultimate solution and I hope, not a confinement that would resemble the very first, that is to say a confinement that allows our children in particular to continue to go to school, ”she said.

Faced with the hypothesis of a reconfinement, the “Île-de-France is clearly on borrowed time” because “the English variant, the majority, is not only more contagious, it is also more deadly”, and “our capacities resuscitation are saturated ”, explained for his part on France 2 Valérie Pécresse.

"It is up to the government to decide" but "today, we can no longer exclude anything" and "in terms of responsibility, if the measures are justified, if they are proportionate and accompanied, I will not oppose them", a she added.

She "urged Ile-de-France residents who may not go to work this week to telework", because "telework is not sufficiently practiced today".

“In the fall, there were only 30% of people in transport.

Today, there are 55%, ”she regretted.

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