In Strasbourg, 80 people are hospitalized because of Covid-19, including 20 in intensive care. Figures that have doubled compared to last week. The fifth wave is here. While the incidence rate in Bas-Rhin is also rising inexorably, the festive images of thousands of people glued to each other at the Strasbourg Christmas market are causing caregivers to react. “We are really apprehensive when the Covids arrive one after the other, laments Stella, a pulmonology nurse. At the beginning of the week I was in the service, there were three, at the end of the week there are eight and we see that it happens more and more. And we have the impression that we are indeed going to relive this period which was horrible, unmanageable and we do not know where we are going ”. Stella recalls the nightmare lived during the first waves. "We were coming,frankly at one point, backing down at work, because it was war medicine, she explains. This period, I really do not want to relive it. "
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"I call on politicians to take their responsibilities," launches Emmanuel Andres, president of the medical committee for the establishment of Strasbourg Hospitals.
I understand that there are other issues besides health.
There are economic issues, we hear a lot from our citizens who want freedom.
But their freedom that they take is freedom that they take from others.
The prefecture and the town hall announced a strengthening of health measures on the Strasbourg Christmas market in the face of the relaxation of barrier gestures observed in the first days of the event and the resurgence of the epidemic.
The Strasbourg Christmas market attracts around two million visitors in a month.
