Coronavirus in France: Police chief with shocking statement about Covid 19 patients

Coronavirus in France: Infection and death rates increase dramatically. The hospitals are overcrowded. Now there was a sad record. Politicians are accusing the United States.

• The corona virus * dominates the world.
• Some countries in Europe are already in a state of emergency .
• The situation is now also coming to a head in France , and a strict curfew has been in effect since March 17.
• Here you will find the basic facts about the corona virus and the corona news from Germany. You can also find current case numbers in Germany as a map. The following recommendations for corona protective measures are currently available.

Update of April 5, 11:00 a.m . : The number of coronavirus infections and deaths continues to rise in France. According to data from Johns Hopkins University, 90,853 people in France are now infected with corona. In addition, 7,574 people suffering from Covid-19 died there . A total of 15,574 people have recovered from an infection with the coronavirus.

Update from April 4, 10:35 pm: For fear of an influx of holidaymakers , seasonal rental of accommodation on large parts of the French sea coast has been prohibited . This was reported by the news channel Franceinfo .

Coronavirus in France: holiday regions take action against virus spread

Initially, all coastal cities in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region were the focus. Vacation rentals on the ocean coast were also banned until April 15 through regulations on the coasts of the Vendée and the Loire-Atlantique and in the coastal communities of the four departments of Brittany. The regions of Corsica, Bouches-du-Rhône, Vaucluse, Var and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence have now decided to take the same measures in all of their territories. The department of Alpes-Maritimes has taken similar measures, but only for coastal communities and communities with more than 10,000 inhabitants .

The prohibition applies to the "rental of hotel rooms for tourist purposes as well as for tourist accommodation or other accommodation intended for seasonal rental ". The focus is on "coping with the possible displacement of people towards tourist resorts during the spring holidays," said the estuary Gironde.

The effects of the coronavirus pandemic can be felt across Europe. However, one country does not want to know anything about Covid-19 and denies the danger.

Update of April 4, 3:52 p.m .: The state of Saxony has taken in three more corona patients from France. They were flown to Germany by ambulance and helicopter on Saturday. The three people are intensive care patients. Three hospitals in Dresden and Coswig had each received a French person infected with Covid-19 on Thursday (April 3).

Meanwhile, doubts about the RKI deaths were raised. Are there actually fewer corona deaths - or even significantly more in Germany? Austria already has it, the obligation to wear a mask. But does it also come in Germany? *

Coronavirus in France: Police chief with shocking statement about Covid 19 patients - death toll increases

Update of April 3, 10 p.m .: The number of deaths caused by the coronavirus * has risen again significantly in France . The authorities recorded 588 new deaths within 24 hours, Health Minister Jerome Salomon said in Paris on Friday evening. This means that since March 1st, 6507 people infected with Corona have died , including 5091 in hospitals, 1416 in nursing homes and other social facilities. 6662 patients are now being treated for intensive care, 35 percent of whom are under 60, he explained.

Coronavirus in France: Paris police chief has to apologize for comment

Update of April 3, 4:56 p.m .: Parisian police chief Didier Lallement caused a stir with comments about Covid-19 patients in the intensive care unit in France. "Those who are in hospital today, those who are in intensive care are now ... those who did not initially comply with the exit restrictions," he told BFMTV on Friday. After fierce criticism, however, he subsequently apologized for his testimony. "It is a mistake and I regret it," said Lallement in a short-term press statement.

So it was not his intention to make a direct connection between the disregard of health instructions and the presence of patients in the intensive care unit, it said in a statement earlier. "He wanted to remind people that in these times strict exit restrictions are necessary to protect everyone's health."

Lallement told the press: “I know that I have injured many people who have loved ones in the intensive care unit in the hospital or who have lost someone. Nobody should feel guilty about going through such a situation, such a tragedy. "

Meanwhile, France accused the USA of "buying away" protective masks intended for Europe. Current developments on Trump and the corona pandemic can be found here.

Coronavirus in France: Nearly 5,400 deaths recorded - hundreds die outside the clinics

Update of April 2, 10:05 pm: France is also badly affected by the spread of the corona virus. The number of deaths as a result of the novel virus has risen to almost 5,400 . 471 other people died within a day in hospitals from Covid-19 *, the health authorities said on Thursday.

Since the start of the corona pandemic *, 4503 people in French hospitals have died as a result of the virus infection, and at least 884 deaths in retirement homes have been reported. So far, only cases registered in hospitals have been published.

Coronavirus in France: 880 people die outside of hospitals

Update of April 2, 8:30 p.m .: Since the pandemic began in France, more than 880 people in social institutions have died from Covid-19 *, as health director Jérôme Salomon said. The shocking number was only preliminary, however, not all institutions had yet provided their exact numbers, as Salomon communicated on Thursday evening. For the first time, French authorities reported the number of coronavirus patients who died outside the clinics.

According to current figures, over 4,500 people have died in coronavirus in hospitals, so there were 471 new deaths within the last day. The number has decreased somewhat compared to the previous day. The number of confirmed coronavirus infections in France is over 59,000 . Nearly 6400 people are currently in intensive care units . “Today there are almost only corona viruses in circulation. The flu has almost disappeared from most regions, ”said Salomon.

Coronavirus in France: Many Parisian patients have to be transferred

Update of April 2, 4:35 pm: In the Corona crisis, France is expanding its largest ever move to transfer intensive care patients. In the capital region, ventilators for the lung sufferers are particularly scarce.

On Wednesday, 36 people had already been brought from Paris to Brittany. According to the Paris health authority Agence régionale de santé (ARS), the number is to be increased to 120 by Friday. "The goal is to evacuate 150 people by the weekend," said a government spokesman. They are to be brought to the Loire Valley by helicopter or plane, among other things.

Previously, patients from the risk area in eastern France had been brought to clinics with higher capacities. Germany and Switzerland also repeatedly took in sick people. France is one of the most affected EU countries with more than 4,000 deaths.

Corona virus: French politicians accuse the United States

Update of April 2, 1:15 p.m .: French politicians are accusing the United States . Renaud Muselier, president of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, told BFMTV on Thursday that mask supplies destined for France had been purchased from another country on the tarmac of Chinese airports. When asked, Muselier confirmed that it was the United States .

According to him, three times the price for the shipment was paid, the masks were now gone. France had recently ordered a billion masks - including from China.

The regional president of the Grand Est region, hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic , Jean Rottner , also made allegations against the United States. "It is true that the Americans arrive on the tarmac, take out the money and pay three or four times more for the orders," Rottner told RTL radio on Wednesday evening. He spoke of a daily struggle. A working group in his region is working with donors to "win these markets," said Rottner. He was very happy that a delivery with around two million protective masks from China had arrived in Eastern France on Wednesday night. The Grand Est region borders on Germany.

Corona in France: The current case numbers

Update of April 2, 10:10 am: According to John Hopkins University, more than 57,000 people in France are infected with the corona virus. France is the country with the fourth most cases in Europe behind Italy, Spain and Germany.

To date, German hospitals have taken 113 patients from the EU partner countries infected with the coronavirus. 85 of these were brought to Germany from congested French regions. A further 13 beds in eight federal states are currently reserved for France. The Federal Foreign Office informed the German Press Agency of this on request.

The current crisis is causing dramatic conditions in Great Britain: In England, too, doctors have to make inhumane decisions because of the corona virus. *

Corona in France - 4000 dead for the first time

Update from April 1, 9:31 pm : In France, more than 4,000 people have succumbed to the consequences of a coronavirus infection for the first time. 4,032 people died, 509 more than the previous day, said health director Jérôme Salomon on Wednesday evening.

Corona crisis in France: Justice reacts with drastic measures

Update, 3:46 p.m .: France releases thousands of prisoners from the notoriously overcrowded prisons in the Corona crisis . It is about 5,000 to 6,000 inmates out of a total of 70,000, said the vice president of the Association of Enforcement Judges Ivan Guitz. Every case will be examined thoroughly. "We don't release serial killers," says Guitz.

Possible candidates for early release are prisoners who have already largely served their sentences and are not a threat to the general public. Anyone convicted of drug trafficking or theft would be an option.

Many prisons were like a "pressure cooker" from which "a little pressure is being let out", Guitz said about overcrowding. In Villepinte, northeast of Paris , there were around a thousand prisoners , but there was actually only room for half as many. Before the government decreed the releases, three inmates each would have had to share a nine-square-meter cell.

Corona in France: Clinics in Paris at the limit - Over 1000 corona deaths in eastern France

Update, 2:35 p.m .: In eastern France , the number of coronavirus patients who have died has risen to over 1,000. In the Grand Est region bordering Germany , 1015 people have died after infection with Sars-CoV-2 , the regional health authority announced today (April 1). Around 4,200 people are currently in hospitals for treatment. According to the authority, 890 patients had to be treated in an intensive care unit .

The area that includes the regions of Alsace, Lorraine and Champagne-Ardenne has been particularly hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic. In order to relieve the intensive care units of the clinics, patients are relocated to other areas in France and to neighboring countries. Luxembourg has agreed to accept four more seriously ill patients from Grand Est, regional president Jean Rottner said on Twitter. He thanked for the support and "effective cross-border cooperation".

In the meantime, the corona virus is spreading more and more in Italy. *

Merci au #Luxembourg qui accepte d'accueillir sur son territoire 4 patients de réanimation supplémentaires.

Un soutien inestimable et une coopération transfrontalière effective @Xavier_Bettel @LenertPaulette @CorinneCahen @ Prefet67 @ars_grand_est @AdeMontchalin

Corona in France: Clinics in Paris at the limit - special trains bring patients out of the city

Update, 12.58 p.m .: The special trains that take seriously ill Covid-19 patients from the congested metropolitan area of Ile-de-France and the capital Paris to hospitals in the region of Brittany in western France are now underway ( see update below ). Medical TGV high-speed trains are used for the journeys.

A medical worker looks through the window of a special TGV medical high-speed train at Paris-Austerlitz station.

© dpa / Thomas Samson

Coronavirus in France: Hospitals in the Paris area are overwhelmed

Update, April 1, 11:15 am: The hospitals in the greater Paris area are enormously overloaded by the Corona crisis . Aurélien Rousseau, director of the Île de France regional health authority, said that she was "at the end of hospital capacity ". That reported the picture .

“There are 1200 intensive care beds in the Paris region. We currently have 2,700 patients in the intensive care unit, ”Rousseau is quoted as saying. Capacities have more than doubled in the past few weeks, but now they are reaching their limits . "Everyone really gives everything, one intensive bed after the other is raised."

Today, Wednesday, two special trains are to take seriously ill Covid 19 patients from the Île-de-France metropolitan area and the capital Paris to hospitals in the region of Brittany in western France. 36 patients were to be transported in the special medical TGV high-speed trains and brought to hospitals in Brest, Rennes and Saint-Brieuc, the image continues.

Meanwhile, the situation in Germany is coming to a head. In Saxony, the number of corona deaths rises - an Italian Covid-19 patient also died.

Corona virus in France: the number of corona infections died in one day increased enormously

The news from March 31, 9.09 p.m .: The number of corona infections died in one day in France has increased enormously. Health director Jérôme Salomon said in Paris on Tuesday evening that there were 499 new deaths within 24 hours. So far, most people have died one day since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in France. There are a total of 3,523 fatalities, according to Salomon.

The number of patients requiring intensive care treatment has also increased by more than 450, with nearly 23,000 people being treated in hospitals, Salomon said. More than 5000 of them in intensive care units.

Salomon announced that two special trains would take seriously ill patients from the Paris metropolitan area to hospitals in the region of Brittany in western France. The situation in the face of the coronavirus pandemic is "completely unprecedented in the history of French medicine," said Salomon. He emphasized that a good 34 percent of the patients in intensive care in the clinics were younger than 60 years.

Coronavirus in France: doctor threatens to infect police officers

Update at 6:20 p.m .: In France , a doctor has been sentenced to a two-year prison sentence after threatening police officers to infect them with the corona virus. The 66-year-old "coughed in an exaggerated manner" and said to the police that they would also get sick, the prosecutor's office in Lille in the north of the country said on Tuesday.

The man had been detained by the gendarmes on charges of domestic violence. According to his wife, the doctor was unable to go to work in his hospital because he was suspected of having Covid-19 lung disease .

In the police vehicle, he removed the protective mask provided by the gendarmes and coughed conspicuously. He said, "He knows that this scares them," said the police. The doctor then had to answer in court for both violence against his wife and law enforcement officers. He should also pay the police officers compensation after the verdict and may not contact his wife.

Corona in France: Macron announces measures to fight Covid-19

Update at 17:19: French President Emmanuel Macron wants to rely more on French independence in the fight against the corona virus - for example in the production of protective masks.

"We have to produce more on our own soil to reduce our dependency," Macron said after visiting a mask maker on Tuesday. By the end of the year, France is said to have achieved its full independence in mask production. "By the end of April, we will have the capacity to produce 15 million masks a week in France," said Macron. France recently ordered a billion masks - including from China.

Corona virus: France braces itself against "invisible enemy"

Macron continued that he was committed to rebuilding French and European sovereignty. He also announced that a consortium of four major French industrial groups plans to manufacture 10,000 ventilators by mid-May. The French state will also make four billion euros available to the national health authority for ordering masks, medicines and respirators.

"We have to fight the virus with the nurses at the front," said Macron. It is an "invisible enemy" . He believed in "united France". Reforms had been adopted before the crisis, which would allow France to be more competitive. "But we have to regain moral strength and the will to produce more in France."

Corona in France: Authority warns of side effects

Update at 10.20 a.m .: France's drug safety authority (ANSM) warns of possible side effects of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine or the HIV drug Kaletra in Covid 19 sufferers. "A few cases of serious side effects have been reported and are currently being analyzed," the ANSM said on Monday evening. The agency emphasized that the medication should under no circumstances be taken as self-medication or on the prescription of a local doctor. "In this context, we demand everyone's responsibility to avoid unnecessary hospital stays due to misuse of these drugs," it said.

Corona in France: under these circumstances, such treatment is allowed

In France, treatment with hydroxychloroquine and Kaletra from Covid-19 sufferers is only permitted if the course is severe and after consultation with several doctors. The agency warned above all of heart problems that can occur when the malaria drug is used in combination with other medications. "We remind that to date no drug has been formally proven to be effective in the treatment or prevention of Covid-19," the agency said.

Hospitals crowded - more than 3,000 corona deaths in France

Update of March 31 at 9:40 a.m .: The corona virus strikes with full force in France too. A total of 45,170 people have been infected so far, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University. 3,024 of them lost their lives.

Update 23:07: The number of corona deaths in France rose to more than 3000 on Monday. A further 418 deaths were recorded within 24 hours, the authorities said on Monday. Currently there are also more than 5000 people in intensive care units , it was said. A total of almost 21,000 Covid-19 patients are currently in the hospital.

Health director Jérôme Salomon said that around 34 percent of the seriously ill are under the age of 60. France has a total of 44 550 confirmed infections.

Update 5:36 pm: According to the President of the Regional Council, the situation in hospitals in eastern France is still tense due to the corona pandemic. The hospitals in Alsace were particularly affected, the President of the Grand Est region, Jean Rottner, told the radio station France Bleu on Monday. The tense situation is also spreading in the cities of Nancy and Metz, as well as in Lorraine and Reims in the Marne department, he continued. About the same number of people were brought to intensive care units every day, Rottner described the processes. There is still a lack of material and protective equipment for the hospitals, the politician said.

Corona in France: Colmar starts disinfecting public spaces

However, the number of calls to the medical emergency service "may" decrease slightly, said Rottner. "It is a small indicator of hope, but we have to be extremely careful," he warned. In recent weeks, patients from the region have been brought to other French hospitals, including Germany and Switzerland. In the meantime, the city of Colmar has started disinfecting public spaces in the Haut-Rhin department, which is badly affected.

In Italy, the scale of the crisis is far worse. But why do so many infected people die there? We provide possible explanations.

Update of March 30, 12:36 p.m .: The situation in France is getting worse . Because of the large number of corona cases in the metropolis of Strasbourg , patients over 80 years of age are no longer ventilated in the clinic . Because of these circumstances, Federal Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer offered help to her French counterpart Florence Parly.

As reported by bild.de , a Bundeswehr machine therefore brought two seriously ill corona patients from France to Stuttgart, from where they were probably transported to a Bundeswehr hospital in Ulm. “In Ulm we increased the number of intensive care places from 22 to 44. Six corona patients are currently being treated. In our calculations we factored in that there is currently no bottleneck for patients from the population, ”said Lieutenant Colonel Matthias Frank.

France mourns politicians - death of 16-year-old shocked the country

Update 6.40 pm: In the midst of the Corona crisis , French Minister of State Amélie de Montchalin accused the nations of China and Russia of "instrumentalizing" their aid to other countries . Montchalin said in the program Questions politiques , which is jointly organized by several French media, that solidarity should not be exploited. She accused the two states of “staging” their aid campaigns for propaganda purposes and “beautiful pictures”.

In line with this, several observers accuse China and Russia of attempting to demonstrate their political influence by offering aid to Europe. Beijing sent nine Chinese coronavirus experts and several tons of medical devices to Rome in mid-March. Russia also sent virologists to Italy.

The French Minister of State for Europe emphasized that Euroa also supported China with 56 tons of material when it was the epicenter of the pandemic. Keeping records of mutual aid , instrumentalizing it or offsetting it against each other would be "indecent ," she said. "We show solidarity. Point. And I say that for everyone. "

Coronavirus in France: regional politician died in hospital after Covid 19 infection

Update 1:14 p.m .: France mourns the loss of a well-known politician: French regional politician Patrick Devedjian came to the hospital for observation on Wednesday evening after he had tested positive for the corona virus - he died there on Sunday night, like his press office for the French News agency announced.

Devedijan held various government posts during Nicolas Sarkozy's reign and was most recently President of the Departmental Council of the Hauts-de-Seine region of France. On March 26, he had thanked the country's hospital staff for the great work via Twitter :

Et merci aussi particulièrement à tous les personnels du Département @hautsdeseinefr qui se sont mobilisés pour répondre aux besoins des habitants!

According to his Twitter account, he leaves four children.

Update of March 29, 9:56 a.m .: According to Zeit Online, the French government is facing at least six procedures - the allegations are lack of assistance and negligent homicide. Among the plaintiffs is the collective "C19" around the doctor Emmanuel Sarrazin : "It is incredible how unprepared we were ridden into this catastrophic situation," he says. As a medic in early March a group of coughing people from the Italian Corona areas came, brought into his practice unannounced, he had to borrow protective masks from a car mechanic friend to be able to continue working.

The government has failed to provide adequate protective materials such as masks - even at times when the massive spread of the virus was already foreseeable, according to lawyers . You are talking about a state scandal. When President Emmanuel Macron shows up in a hospital, doctors criticize him hard, the time goes on. The situation is aggravated by the fact that nurses and nursing staff, who now have to work hard, recently went on strike for more staff and better equipment in hospitals - last year 15,000 beds were cut in hospitals.

À Mulhouse, aux côtés des femmes et des hommes mobilisés en première ligne pour protéger les Français du COVID-19. https://t.co/CTas1KjRJd

Corona virus in France: more and more infected people are flown out

Update of March 28, 10:16 pm: According to John Hopkins University , 2,314 people in France have died as a result of the coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 . The number of infected people has risen to more than 38,000 (as of March 28, 10:30 p.m.).

Two patients from Metz in northeastern France were brought to Essen on a military helicopter on Saturday, where they will be treated at the university hospital, as a spokeswoman for the North Rhine-Westphalian state government said.

According to François Braun, head of the regional hospital center emergency department, two more patients are expected to be flown to Germany on Sunday afternoon. Depending on the development of the situation, decisions will be made about further patient transports. According to Braun, around a dozen corona patients have been brought to German hospitals by ambulance since the pandemic began.

Defense Minister Florence Parly wrote on Twitter that military helicopters from the army should fly several Covid-19 patients from Metz to Germany in the coming days. In the meantime, the coronavirus is spreading even more in Russia. *

Corona in France: 16-year-old had "only one cough", now she is dead - mother gives details

Update of March 28, 12.49 p.m .: The death of 16-year-old Julie shocked France : The adolescent is the youngest victim of the coronavirus pandemic * in the country, as the Ministry of Health in Paris announced. Her mother has now described the outbreak of the disease and the tragic details. "She only had a cough," she said of the beginning of the disease *.

Julie first treated him with cough syrup and inhalations a week ago *. The first breathing disorders would have occurred from Saturday. The situation became worse and worse, the family doctor finally alerted the emergency service. Instead of the ambulance, the fire brigade came: with protective suits, masks, gloves. That was unimaginable, said her mother, "that was the fourth dimension".

Corona in France: dramatic battle with death - 16-year-old Julie is the youngest victim

At first there was talk of "nothing serious", Corona rapid tests were negative. But then the sad turning point: It was Covid-19 *, Julie has already been transferred to the intensive care unit in the renowned Paris children's hospital in Necker .

The family then received the shock call early Wednesday morning: "Come quickly!" When mother Sabine arrived at the hospital with her older daughter Manon, Julie was already dead. "Her skin was still warm," said her mother.

The situation is currently just as dramatic in Spain and Italy. Austria is preparing for further drastic measures, while US President Donald Trump was caught ice cold in a lie.

Corona crisis in France: number of deaths soars - police tell of absurd situations

Update, 8:50 p.m .: France also has many casualties from the insidious lung disease Covid-19 .

In hospitals, 299 people with coronavirus infection died within 24 hours. The number of deaths rose to 1,995, the director general in the Ministry of Health, Jérôme Salomon, announced on Friday evening.

However, the statistics do not include people who died of Corona in their own home or in old age and care facilities, it said. As of Monday, the recording will be more precise.

Because of the corona pandemic , France has been subject to a strict curfew from March 17th to April 15th.

This action backfired. A real branch wanted to supply its customers with toilet paper. But these are now making serious allegations.

Corona crisis in France: NRW welcomes French patients

Update, 19.55: North Rhine-Westphalia will take in four seriously ill Corona patients from France in the coming days . The state chancellery announced this in response to a request for help from the neighboring country.

The French patients should all be brought to the Essen University Hospital.

Update, 12.45 p.m .: A curfew was imposed in France due to the spread of the corona virus. But many question marks remain. Citizens are unsettled: what is actually still allowed? This is why numerous calls are currently being received by the police - many of which make you forget the crisis for a moment. Because they are unintentionally hilarious. A woman who lives in an open marriage asks: "Can my husband spend the weekend with his lover?"

An animal lover meanwhile is very worried about his horse: "A stranger is stroking my horse - can he infect it with the corona virus?"

Corona virus in France: police experience bizarre stories

In the first few days, the number of calls via the emergency number had literally exploded, a spokesman for the gendarmerie in northern France told the AFP news agency. "People call because of everything and nothing because they are bored. They just want to talk," explains another police officer.

An official from the gendarmerie in the Rhône department tells of worried questions about whether the trash can still be taken outside despite the curfew. However, there are also many calls with a serious background. A number of people report that they have experienced domestic violence.

Some French apparently also call to get their unloved neighbor in trouble. An officer from the gendarmerie in the Ardèche department reported a call who complained: "My neighbor chats with a lot of people and does not stick to the curfew."

Officials who carry out checks in public spaces also experience absurd stories, as an example from the northern region of Picardy shows. A man was stopped there about 50 kilometers from where he lived. The reason for his long journey was exclusively of a culinary nature. He said he wanted to get the French specialty cassoulet.

Corona virus in France: situation in Alsace "bad" - Paris apparently asks the German Bundeswehr for help.

© AFP / JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER

Corona crisis in France: clinic uses triage procedure

Update 9.23 a.m .: The department president of Strasbourg, Brigitte Klinkert, explains in the newspaper "Die Welt" that the triage procedure has been practiced for two weeks, for example by the doctors at the University Hospital of Strasbourg. Patients over 80, over 75, and in some days even over 70, could no longer be intubated because the respirators were simply missing, said the politician. One cannot say it often enough, because not only the German neighbors but also the French outside of Alsace did not realize the seriousness of the situation.

The University Hospital of Strasbourg stated on Thursday evening in a press release, which is available to the SWR, that the overall condition of the patient is decisive for ventilation - not just the age. The Strasbourg University Clinic also created new ventilation options.

Update, March 27, 2020, 7:03 am: The FDP defense politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann is in favor of giving France the help of the Bundeswehr in the Corona crisis.

Corona in France: help from the Bundeswehr?

On Friday she responded to a “Spiegel” report that the government in Paris in Germany had asked for quick help from the Bundeswehr. This should be done as part of what the Bundeswehr can currently do in parallel with relief missions in Germany, the politician demanded.

"Especially in times when we have to watch how borders are drawn up in Europe, we have to pay particular attention to European and international cooperation," said Strack-Zimmermann.

Corona crisis in France: 16-year-old died near Paris

Update, 8:54 p.m .: The situation in France is coming to a head. The deaths are increasing rapidly. There were 365 new cases within 24 hours, said health director Jérôme Salomon on Thursday (March 26) in Paris . The number is now 1696. For the first time in France, a young person is among the fatalities. A 16-year-old Covid-19 patient died in the Paris region, says Salomon.

According to the information, there are currently 3375 patients with severe illnesses in intensive care units. The number of confirmed infections has increased by around 4,000 cases to 29,155 cases .

Corona virus in France: situation in Alsace on the brink - Paris apparently asks the Bundeswehr for help

Munich - first China, then South Korea. Recently Italy and Spain - and now France ? The corona virus pandemic is affecting more and more countries and presents them with a hitherto unknown challenge.

While the situation in China and South Korea now seems to have eased, the worst is clearly yet to come in Europe. The health system is reaching its limits in Italy and Spain. A similar scenario now threatens in France .

Because of the corona crisis has France in Germany according to a report by the Mirror asked for immediate help of the Bundeswehr. The government in Paris had in the past few days asked the federal government via military and diplomatic channels whether the Bundeswehr could help quickly because of the emergency in the neighboring country, the news magazine reported on Thursday. The Ministry of Defense in Berlin said on request that there was no official application.

According to the French request, helicopters are urgently needed to transfer Corona patients from particularly affected regions to other parts of the country, the report says. The Bundeswehr could also help care for Covid-19 patients who are currently pushing the French health system to its capacity limits - so obviously places for medical treatment are requested. Paris also envisions deploying units of the German-French brigade.

Corona virus in France: situation in Alsace "bad" - Paris apparently asks the Bundeswehr for help

Currently this applies Alsace as corona epicenter in France . The situation there is bad. Not far from Germany, old corona patients are no longer ventilated.

Disaster physicians report dramatic conditions in Alsace in the face of the corona pandemic . According to this, doctors at the University Clinic in Strasbourg continue to work with corona patients even if they are infected themselves. In addition, patients over 80 years old would no longer be ventilated. Instead, "death care with opiates and sleeping pills", employees of the German Institute for Disaster Medicine in Tübingen write in a report to the state government of Baden-Württemberg, which is available to the German Press Agency. Several media reported about it.

The Alsace is considered France's epicenter of the crisis. German disaster medics visited the university clinic in Strasbourg on Monday - and raise the alarm about the conditions. In the paper, they report a “tangible danger” from the virus . Assuming that the development in Alsace will soon set in Germany , an optimal preparation is of the "highest urgency". The danger posed by the corona virus makes "further consistent measures by the state governments, hospitals and emergency services in Germany " indispensable.

The discussion about the takeover of seriously ill French into German KH is disgusting.
"What if a German should need the ventilation bed?"
"... there are not enough for us Germans?"
If I could, I would not treat any of these racists. # Covid_19 #Alsace

The patient to be ventilated is the bottleneck, the paper says. Patients older than 80 years have not been ventilated at the Strasbourg clinic since the weekend. This is also the way it is dealt with patients in nursing homes at the age who need ventilation. The emergency services should provide you with "quick death care". The ethics committee specifies this procedure.

Coronavirus in France - Report from Alsace: Patients over 80 are no longer ventilated

According to the report, the clinic admitted an hourly patient on Monday, who needs ventilation. 90 ventilation beds were available at the time. The clinic is currently expanding its capacities. Patients between the ages of 19 and 80 are ventilated there, whereby only 3 of the 90 patients were younger than 50 and had no previous illnesses. At the university hospital, only one vital bypass operation is carried out per day, there is no longer any tumor surgery and no outpatient surgery. All patients who are able to walk and whose health is acceptable have been discharged.

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) classified the eastern French regions of Alsace and Lorraine as coronavirus risk areas around two weeks ago . The Champagne-Ardenne region, which shares a border with Belgium, is also considered a risk area. The three areas together form the Grand Est region . It borders on Baden-Württemberg, the Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate . French President Emmanuel Macron announced a military operation to support the population when he visited a new mobile army clinic in Mulhouse, Alsace, on Wednesday evening.

According to the regional health agency in the Grand Est region, 3,068 people with Sars CoV-2 infection were hospitalized by Wednesday . Almost 651 of these are in intensive care units. Since the pandemic started , more than 500 deaths have been reported across the region. A special train with 20 Corona patients on board left Strasbourg for western France on Thursday to relieve the intensive care units in the affected region.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus. In China, researchers are puzzled because a man had mild symptoms of the coronavirus for 49 days - possibly a mutation.

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