The operations of transfers of French patients of the coronavirus to Germany continued on Tuesday to relieve the work of the caregivers in a Grand-Est still saturated by the epidemic of coronavirus.
An Airbus A330 Phoenix from the Air Force, which took off at around 12 p.m. from Istres before taking off from Basel-Mulhouse shortly after 2:30 p.m. with six patients on board, landed in the middle of the afternoon at Hamburg Airport.
"Other flights will follow"
On board the aircraft equipped with the Morphée evacuation device, 25 soldiers: a pilot and a co-pilot, 4 flight personnel, 13 members of the medical crew, 3 experts from the biological research institute of the armed forces, and 3 experts in NRBC security (nuclear, radiological, bacteriological, chemical).
Operation Resilience - Rotations continue, the Armies are mobilized for our fellow citizens.
Today, an NH90 Caïman @armeedeterre helicopter has started to evacuate patients from Metz to Essen. Other flights will follow in the coming hours.
"Thank you to our caregivers, our soldiers and to Germany", tweeted the Minister of the Armies Florence Parly. At the same time, it reported the evacuation of patients from Metz to Essen in an NH90 Caiman helicopter from the army. “Other flights will follow in the coming hours. "
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