Two doctors from Haut-Rhin and Moselle died this weekend from coronavirus contamination.

These two new deaths bring to three the number of doctors dead because of the epidemic, since the announcement Sunday by the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, of the death of a hospital doctor from Compiègne (Oise), who had managed the first patients with coronavirus.

In Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin), Jean-Marie Boegle, 66-year-old obstetrician-gynecologist, died "as a result" of Covid-19, said in a press release the Diaconat clinic, where this doctor had been practicing "for thirty-five years ", demonstrating" flawless exemplarity ".

"He had contracted the virus from one of his patients during a consultation in his office," said the press release from the clinic.

"He was not feeling very well, he was in his country house for the weekend in Burgundy," his colleague Georges-Fabrice Blum told BFMTV.

"He was hospitalized first at the hospital in Beaune (Côte d'Or), eight days ago, [then was] transferred to the Dijon university hospital where he was intubated on Saturday [and where he is deceased] ", he added.

In Moselle, Sylvain Welling, a 60-year-old general practitioner, died at Saint-Avold hospital where he had been admitted for "respiratory problems", said Gilbert Weber, mayor of the Moselle commune of L'Hôpital, where the doctor was practicing.

He had been admitted Thursday in the establishment where he died Saturday "in the intensive care unit Covid-19", said in a statement the hospital of Saint-Avold.

"He was a very active doctor, he was [in his office] very early in the morning and very late in the evening," added Gilbert Weber, not knowing if there were any cases of Covid-19 in his commune more than 5,000 inhabitants, located in the east of the Moselle.

The situation continued to worsen over the weekend in the Great East, and in particular in the Haut-Rhin, which had become one of the main French foci of the epidemic due to the coronavirus after a large evangelical gathering of a week in February. The resuscitation services at Colmar and Mulhouse hospitals are saturated there.

With AFP

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