(Fighting new crown pneumonia) French deaths break through 4000 cases
China News Agency, Paris, April 1st (Reporter Li Yang) The French new crown pneumonia epidemic continued to worsen on the 1st local time. The number of deaths in a single day exceeded 500 for the first time, and the cumulative number of deaths exceeded 4,000. The outbreak in the Greater Paris area is urgent, and the local hospital load has reached its limit.
The Director General of the French Health Agency Salomon announced the latest epidemic statistics that night. On the 1st, France added 4861 new cases and the cumulative number of confirmed cases rose to 56989. .
Salomon said that the number of inpatients in France has risen to 24,639, of which 6017 were critically ill; 1882 new inpatients were added on the 1st, of which 452 were critically ill. He said the number of critically ill patients had exceeded the initial expected capacity of the French medical system and efforts were being made to continue adding intensive care beds.
In France, the number of confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia in the Greater Paris area has risen to 16,109, and in the Greater Paris area, 258 deaths have been added on the 1st, and the cumulative deaths have reached 1406. The number of critically ill patients in the Greater Paris area has increased to 2,227.
The head of the medical institution in the Greater Paris area confirmed on the 1st that the local hospital load has reached its limit. He said that there were more than 2,000 patients with severe illness in the area and there were only 1,200 intensive care beds. At present, efforts are being made to increase the number of beds, but the pressure of medical care is very great, and foreign medical staff have been asked to come to support.
For the first time in the Greater Paris area, a medical high-speed train was used to transfer dozens of critically ill patients to other places for continued treatment, and 36 critically ill patients were transferred to Brittany. From the evening of the 1st to the 2nd, more than a hundred patients will continue to be transported to other places for treatment.
French Prime Minister Philip and Health Minister Villan attended the National Assembly hearing on the same day. Regarding the question of when to end the control measures, Philip responded that deregulation is a very complicated process. In the future, the control measures may not be lifted for everyone at one time, and the ban may be gradually lifted based on regional and age considerations. (Finish)