Guest from Europe Evening Thursday, a few minutes after the announcement of the extension of the government curfew, the head of infectious and tropical diseases at the Parisian Tenon Hospital, Gilles Pialoux, believes that this measure is justified.
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A curfew will affect from Friday midnight 54 departments as well as French Polynesia.
This is the strong measure of Prime Minister Jean Castex announced this Thursday, during the government's weekly press conference on the coronavirus.
An extension "justified" for the head of infectious and tropical diseases of the Parisian Hospital Tenon, Gilles Pialoux, while the epidemic continues to progress in the territory.
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Measurements justified in light of the daily balance sheet figures
"These measures are justified in view of the figures that we see every day", indicates the doctor while the Jean Castex indicated at a press conference that the "situation is serious".
According to the Prime Minister, the incidence rate, that is to say the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 per 100,000 inhabitants, increased by 40% in one week to reach 251 on the national territory.
And the reproduction rate of the virus induces a doubling of the number of cases every two weeks.
"We will not be able to outsource the sick as in the spring"
"This is not a plan only to take care of only people with Covid, but also other patients who often had their operations unscheduled during the first wave."
It is moreover this double flow of patients, Covid and non-Covid, which is one of the peculiarities of this second wave.
"Each region, city, hospital is busy managing its own epidemic and we will not be able to outsource patients as in the spring," he warns.
There will then only be the deprogramming of non-emergency operations to relieve hospital pressure a little, points out Gilles Pialoux.
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