Their arrival did not go unnoticed in Rennes (35). The ambulances carrying the twelve patients in intensive care transferred from Paris were greeted by a round of applause from the balconies in the Breton capital.
A total of 36 ventilated patients left Paris hospitals and joined Rennes, Brest and Saint-Brieuc on medical TGVs that left from the Austerlitz station in the morning.
This medical evacuation aims to relieve hospitals in Ile-de-France, which had not yet been able to transfer patients to the regions. Until then, only establishments in the Grand-Est had evacuated patients to other hospitals in France and Germany.
The capacity of the Ile-de-France resuscitation services is reaching saturation point, while a third of the 3,523 deaths linked to Covid-19 have been recorded in Île-de-France. The Paris region is now the hardest hit by the epidemic.