Nearly 4,000 Covid-19 patients received in intensive care and saturated hospitals in several regions: the health crisis was at the center of a new Defense Council on Wednesday morning.
Faced with the situation, government spokesman Gabriel Attal announced on Wednesday that confinement would be extended in the Alpes-Maritimes.
"The incidence rate remains high in the Alpes-Maritimes (...) the level of saturation in hospitals in Paca is still extremely high, for these reasons it was decided to extend the confinement to extend it this weekend" , announced Gabriel Attal.
A point will be made next week to "measure whether the dynamics of reduction in the incidence and the epidemic in the department continues", and allow "in this case (to) be able to consider lifting the measure".
As a reminder, that which entered into force in Dunkirk on February 27, initially until March 7, was extended until Sunday March 28.
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Evacuations of hospitalized patients
The spokesperson also announced medical evacuations in Ile-de-France in the coming days.
In the department, the resuscitation beds are 80% occupied, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo announced on Monday.
But no re-containment is envisaged, for his part said the director general of health, on RTL on Tuesday.
"This is already the case for other regions," said Gabriel Attal at the end of the Council of Ministers, insisting on the necessary mobilization of "all the forces available to welcome the sick", especially in the private sector.
In France, the number of patients with Covid-19 in intensive care continued to increase on Tuesday, to 3,918, according to hospital data published by the health authorities.
The number of patients in this service, which receives the most serious cases, has increased by 69 in 24 hours.
A week ago, it stood at 3586. Having dropped below 2600 at the start of January, this indicator has continued to rise since then and is now at the level of the end of November.
Nearly 3.9 million people have also received a first dose of vaccine in France.
