A German army A400M landed at around 12:20 p.m. on Strasbourg airport to evacuate two coronavirus patients to a hospital in Ulm (south-west Germany), the first evacuation of French patients carried out by German military means .
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The plane must take off quickly to reach Stuttgart, from where the two patients will be transported to the military hospital in Ulm, it was said by sources close to the file.
"Germany offers us extra beds"
This evacuation was announced simultaneously on French radio by the French Secretary of State for European Affairs, Amélie de Montchalin. "As we speak, there is a German military plane landing in Strasbourg to take French patients to hospitals around Stuttgart and Ulm," she said on France Inter radio.
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According to her, 80 French people suffering from coronavirus were hospitalized in Luxembourg, Germany and Switzerland. Amélie de Montchalin welcomed the cooperation with Berlin, stressing that "Germany is offering us extra beds" and that it had delivered respirators to France "again yesterday".