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Covid-19: first evacuation of French patients by a German military aircraft

2020-03-29T12:33:30.860Z


This German army aircraft will transport from Strasbourg to evacuate two patients from the Covid-19 to Stuttgart.


Franco-German friendship. A German army A400M landed at around 12:20 p.m. on Strasbourg airport to evacuate two coronavirus patients to a hospital in Ulm (south-west Germany), the first evacuation of French patients carried out by German military means , noted an AFP photographer.

The plane must reach Stuttgart from where the two patients will be transported to the military hospital in Ulm, it was said by sources close to the file. This evacuation was announced simultaneously on French radio by the French Secretary of State for European Affairs, Amélie de Montchalin.

"As we speak, there is a German military plane that lands in Strasbourg to take French patients to hospitals around Stuttgart and Ulm," she said on France Inter radio. According to her, 80 French people suffering from coronavirus were hospitalized in Luxembourg, Germany and Switzerland.

"We are by our French friends"

Mme de Montchalin welcomed the cooperation with Berlin, stressing that "Germany is offering us additional beds" and that it had delivered respirators to France "again yesterday (Friday) ". "It's in Franco-German that we do a lot of things today and I really want to thank them," she insisted.

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"We are by our French friends," tweeted German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. "With my French counterpart @florence_parly, we have agreed that our air force will transport patients seriously affected by Codid-19 so that they can be treated in our German military hospitals".

Wir stehen unseren französischen Freunden bei. Mit meiner Amtskollegin @florence_parly habe ich abgesprochen, dass unsere Luftwaffe schwerkranke # COVID19-Patienten aus Frankreich zur Behandlung in unsere # Bundeswehr-Krankenhäuser holt. Gemeinsam sind wir stärker! pic.twitter.com/snW6Se5n2q

- A. Kramp-Karrenbauer (@akk) March 29, 2020

Source: leparis

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