Deployed a month and a half ago at the foot of the civilian hospital to relieve it in the face of the coronavirus epidemic, the field hospital of the armies of Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) currently has no more patients due to the drop in the number of seriously ill patients, we learned on Saturday from the armed forces.
"The last patient was transferred on May 7," said a military source, without specifying how many beds were still installed. "To my knowledge, there are no more patients but still beds, ready to be refilled if ever we needed them," said Haut-Rhin Prefect Laurent Touvet, during a press conference.
Coronavirus: these emergency hospitals born in emergency
With an initial capacity of 30 beds, one of the three spans of this equipment installed in a few days in March on the parking lot of the public hospital had been dismantled on April 18, in view of the improvement in the health situation in Haut-Haut. Rhine.
Its possible complete dismantling "is a decision that is taken at government level to see where in France we need this hospital the most and whether its presence is still necessary in Mulhouse or not," explained Laurent Touvet.
Night curfew lifted
Another strong symbol, the night curfew that has been in effect since March in Mulhouse will stop Sunday evening with the start of deconfinement in this city particularly hit by the epidemic of coronavirus, said Laurent Touvet.
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"By mutual agreement with the mayor of Mulhouse, the Mulhouse curfew will no longer be applied," he said at a press conference. "But the rule of no longer gathering with more than ten people applies to Mulhouse as elsewhere," he warned. Decreed on March 22, this curfew, which was set from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., had been extended until May 11 to avoid evening gatherings and the opening of businesses at night.
The Haut-Rhin "has paid a heavy price for this epidemic"
The Haut-Rhin department was one of the main French centers of the coronavirus epidemic after a large evangelical gathering in February whose participants then involuntarily spread the disease.
With more than 1,300 people who have died in hospitals and institutions for the elderly since the start of March, the Haut-Rhin "has paid a heavy price for this epidemic," said Laurent Touvet. But confinement "was better respected there than elsewhere because the disease was very present, very concrete," said the prefect.
In this department classified by the government in red like the rest of the Grand Est region, "deconfinement is possible but with additional precautions", he considered. The curfew which had also been decreed in Nancy "will end in the night of May 10 to 11", we also learned from the prefecture of Meurthe-et-Moselle.