They declared "the absolute state of emergency" in Corsica. A group of doctors is sounding the alarm on the Isle of Beauty this Monday. They are calling for measures to better screen coronavirus patients and are launching an "urgent" call to find sampling kits, while the territory has 22 deaths, including a first in nursing homes which occurred this weekend.
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"In Corsica we are even more vulnerable"
"Today we want to support the doctor by doing a test that would allow him to know with certainty whether his patient is 'Covid +' or not, and thus avoid the spread [of the disease], including at the level of the family unit or close environments ", explains at the microphone of the" Big evening newspaper "of Europe 1 Professor Antoine Aiello, who chairs the collective" anti Covid-19 Corsica ". "In Corsica, we are even more vulnerable because it is 30% of the elderly and our health system is limited to only two hospitals, one of which is small in Corte."
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"I am making an urgent appeal, we need collection kits"
Insufficient infrastructure while the island has "300,000 inhabitants distributed in villages and inaccessible areas", notes the practitioner. "The tests are probably one of the best weapons we have" against the coronavirus, and "I hope they can massify." But in the meantime, it is especially the lack of equipment to carry them out that worries Antoine Aiello: "I am making an urgent appeal, we need collection kits, if people have stocks and can give them to us, we transport, we pay for everything, it's very urgent. "