Six Covid-19 patients were transferred from Corsica and Occitania to Brittany and the Grand Est on Friday, and six others must be evacuated from Martinique to Paris this weekend, authorities said.
As in the first three epidemic waves, medical evacuations are increasing to relieve the most crowded hospitals.
Ten patients evacuated since the start of the week
In Corsica, where three patients in intensive care had already been transported to Marseille, three other transfers from Ajaccio and Bastia "have taken place today to Brittany", according to the prefecture.
Two were taken care of at the Brest CHU and the third in Morlaix, said the regional health agency (ARS) of Brittany.
Three other patients hospitalized in intensive care at the Montpellier University Hospital were transferred by plane to Metz, the regional hospital center (CHR) in Lorraine said.
Since the start of the week, ten patients have been evacuated from Montpellier, Toulouse, Montauban, Nîmes and Narbonne to the Grand Est and Hauts-de-France, detailed ARS Occitanie.
Six Martinican patients brought back by plane this weekend
In Martinique, Air Caraïbes will "send a plane on behalf of the Ministry" of Health, the boss of the airline, Marc Rochet, announced on LCI.
The device must "be in place on Saturday" and "bring six patients" to metropolitan France in order "to alleviate the burden on the hospital of Fort-de-France in terms of resuscitation," he added.
A health source confirmed to AFP that "the plane leaving to pick them up took off today", slipping in passing that "there will be other round trips".
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