A scene that we would have liked not to see again.
As at the worst times of the pandemic, especially during the first wave in March 2020 via medical trains, a medical plane carrying three Covid patients in intensive care landed overnight in mainland France from Martinique.
These were taken care of in the Ile-de-France establishments of the AP-HP, we learned Sunday from the general directorate of health.
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The plane, a Falcon chartered by the ISOS medical repatriation company, had left Fort de France on Saturday morning local time with two men aged 53 and 61 on board as well as a 51-year-old woman suffering from severe forms of the coronavirus.
“Dramatic” situation overseas
On the epidemic front, the situation is currently considered “dramatic” overseas by the Prime Minister, and particularly in Reunion Island and Martinique, where the Delta variant is on the rise in vacation spots.
In Martinique, in a state of health emergency like Reunion since July 13, a re-containment has been in place since Friday 7 p.m. (Saturday 1 hour in Paris), for a period of at least three weeks.
About fifty soldiers from the Army Health Service and the Army Medical Regiment will also be quickly deployed to the CHU of Fort-de-France. Since March 2020, 1,123 patients with Covid in France have been the subject of a medical evacuation, according to the DGS.
