A medical plane carrying three Covid patients in intensive care landed overnight in mainland France from Martinique and they were taken care of in AP-HP establishments in the Ile-de-France region, we learned this Sunday from of the Directorate General for Health.
The plane, a Falcon chartered by the ISOS medical repatriation company, had left Fort-de-France on Saturday morning local time with two men aged 53 and 61 on board as well as a 51-year-old woman suffering from severe forms of coronavirus.
On the epidemic front, the situation is currently considered “dramatic” overseas by the Prime Minister, and particularly in Reunion Island and Martinique, where the Delta variant is on the rise in vacation spots.
In Martinique, in a state of health emergency like Reunion since July 13, re-containment has been in place since 7 p.m. Friday (Saturday at 1 a.m. in Paris), for a period of at least three weeks.
About fifty soldiers from the Army Health Service and the Army Medical Regiment will also be quickly deployed to the CHU of Fort-de-France.
Since March 2020, 1,123 patients with Covid in France have been the subject of a medical evacuation, according to the DGS.
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