“ I had a fever of 39 ° C and a very painful cough for five days. I called 15 and the doctor told me to go to the hospital immediately, ”says Jean-François Flores in a weak voice. This sexagenarian living in Aire-sur-l'Adour has been hospitalized since Sunday evening at the Mont-de-Marsan hospital, in the Landes. The department has so far been relatively preserved by the health crisis, despite the influx of Parisians and Bordeaux residents who joined their holiday residence at the start of confinement. To date, the Mont-de-Marsan hospital center has deplored only three deaths linked to the coronavirus. The director of the hospital, Frédéric Pigny, is adamant: “If there have been few cases, it is clearly because the confinement has paid off. "
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It must also be said that the low density of the Landes population, 44 inhabitants per square kilometer, limits the risks of spread - and the large surface area of the dwellings makes confinement easier to live with,
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