New measures against Macron's coronavirus: "Something had to be done"

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Curfew, "rule of 6" ... Emmanuel Macron banged his fist on the table this Wednesday by announcing new restrictions to fight against the coronavirus.

Measures that come in reaction to a hospital situation "extremely worrying" estimates this Wednesday evening in Europe Soir the head of the emergency department of the Avicenne hospital in Bobigny, Frédéric Adnet.

"Something had to be done," he said.

"We couldn't go on like that, on this trajectory that brought us straight into the wall."

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Resuscitation services "100% full"

Without new restrictions, "our situation would have been catastrophic at the end of the month," said the specialist.

"We give the figure of 30%, 40%, 50% of Covid patients in intensive care units, but these services are 100% filled with the addition of non-Covid patients.

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"We don't have enough beds"

Supporting figures, Frédéric Adnet recalls the extent of the upsurge of the virus in France.

While he hospitalized 100 Covid patients last spring, they are now "between 5 and 10 per day".

"There are fewer patients than during the first wave, but they are arriving continuously and saturating the hospital. The problem is that the establishment has not grown and that we must manage non-patients. Covid and coronavirus patients. "

Too much patient flow: "we don't have enough beds, services, hospitals".