Hospital tension continues to increase in the face of the increase in contaminations, in particular with an increase in cases of English variants.

Invited from Europe 1, Jean-François Timsit, head of the intensive care unit at Bichat Hospital, calls on the government to take measures quickly to avoid submersion.

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The French are unlikely to be reconfigured this week, if there is any reconfinement.

The President of the Republic has decided to delay and to leave time before deciding on a possible third confinement, in particular to observe the effects of the generalization of the curfew at 6 p.m. on the figures of the Covid epidemic. 19.

But some caregivers nonetheless believe that the government is wasting too much time and that it would be urgent to take action now, such as Jean-François Timsit, head of the intensive care unit at Bichat Hospital in Paris, who was invited Wednesday to Europe Morning.

"The epidemiological situation is not good. There are clearly more new cases than cured cases, and more and more patients in intensive care," said Professor Jean-François Timsit.

"With us, the number of Covid patients is increasing by around 10% every week. We are reopening beds," he explains.

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Most of these new patients would be affected by the English variant, which is more contagious than the strain that circulated in Europe until now, is likely to be the cause of a third wave of contaminations in France.

"Roughly speaking, the English variant represented 1% of our patients ten days ago. Right now, out of the last eight patients that I have had, I have five who have a variant which is probably the variant. English ", confides Jean-François Timsit.

"This variant is more and more frequent and is transmitted better"

In his eyes, the hospital tension is already strong enough to force the government to take strong measures.

"This variant is more and more frequent and is transmitted better, so there is a strong risk that the situation will worsen very quickly. [...] If we wait too long, we will be overwhelmed", warns Jean -François Timsit.

"Between the contamination of a new patient and the arrival of severe cases at the hospital, it takes about ten days, which means that the reaction must be done very early [...]. 'we see the slope and the increase coming, we have to react. I think that on Friday there will be a certain amount of data, and based on these data I hope that the response will be strong enough and sufficiently calibrated to the concerns that we can have ", adds this practitioner without explicitly mentioning a third confinement.