163 coronavirus patients have been evacuated from Ile-de-France in the last three days, said Friday, April 3, the Regional Health Agency (ARS), which intends to continue transfers during the weekend.
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A total of 113 people were evacuated as part of the airlift set up by the health authorities, a spokesman for the agency told AFP. 36 patients were transported by medical TGV and 14 others by road, he detailed.
This transfer of patients, intended to relieve hospitals in Paris and its region, faced with a massive influx of patients with coronavirus since the beginning of the week, will also "continue during the weekend". "We will maintain the airlift", even if "the patient transfers will be done at a slower pace", said the spokesman of the ARS, without giving a quantified objective for the evacuations.
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Ile-de-France is with the Grand-Est one of the regions most affected by the Covid-19 epidemic: according to ARS Ile-de-France, 2,375 patients were treated in intensive care on Thursday evening in the Ile-de-France establishments.