Paris, Marseille, same fate?
At the Hôtel de Ville in Paris, new restrictive measures and establishment closures are expected at any time, like what was implemented in the Marseille city a few days ago and even though since Monday evening, bars have been required to lower their curtains from 10 p.m.
Dark red, scarlet red… The color chart does not really matter, since what is certain is that Ile-de-France has passed the stage of vigilance, by far.
More than 2,000 people sick with Covid are hospitalized in Ile-de-France to date, including nearly 350 in intensive care.
This represents more than 30% of the resuscitation beds in the region, the regional health agency (ARS) said.
"It never happens that one and the same disease occupies a third of intensive care beds, it is abnormal", insists a health source.
Unprogrammed operations
The incidence, as the ratio of the number of positive cases in one week per 100,000 inhabitants is called, is breaking records: 154 for Ile-de-France against 104 in France, 252 in Paris.
The 60-69 year olds particularly at risk for the most serious forms of the disease are not spared (132 positive cases out of 100,000 inhabitants in Paris, 121 in Seine-Saint-Denis, 119 in Hauts-de-Seine, 116 in the Val-d'Oise ...)
“There are fewer patients than in March, but the disease is no less serious,” insists Dr. Lionel Lamhaut, responsible for adult resuscitation at Necker hospital.
Operation deprogramming is being considered to accommodate Covid patients, whose number everything suggests that their number will increase.
Will it be a new tsunami like in March?
No one knows, but optimism is not in order.
Rather, the question is when even more restrictive measures will be ordered.
The police headquarters are in charge.
"The lights are red", we note on the side of the Public Assistance-Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP).
“I am very worried about the future.
We are heading straight for new restrictions and periods of re-containment, ”fears Anne Souyris, deputy (EELV) of Anne Hidalgo in charge of health.
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In the eyes of the elected representative, it is currently in schools that there is an urgent need to take measures.
“In our conservatories, we have doubled dance lessons to limit the number of students when the room is too small.
I do not understand that in schools, there is no reflection on the duplication of class or measures to prevent teachers from having lunch together in confined rooms.
As for the lectures in the universities, they could very well take place by teleconference, insists the elected ecologist.
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