Covid-19: "In the West Indies, the situation in hospitals is cataclysmic"
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The entrance to the University Hospital Center in Pointe-à-Pitre, July 30, 2021. AFP - YANNICK MONDELO
By: Florent Guignard
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1,000 cases of Covid-19 per 100,000 inhabitants in Guadeloupe and Martinique, an incidence rate greater than 1,000 while at the national level we are around 200 ... it is an outbreak never seen in the West Indies.
Hospitals are overwhelmed and this Tuesday afternoon two planes take off from Paris, with in one, the Minister of Health, in the other, the Minister of Overseas and above all 240 caregivers and 70 firefighters to support their colleagues Caribbean overtaken by the Delta variant.
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