While the weekend confinement is extended until March 28 in Dunkirk, that of Île-de-France
"is not relevant"
, assured Tuesday the Director General of Health, Jérôme Salomon on RTL.
However, the indicators are deteriorating and the hospitals are under
"very strong tension"
: 1,032 Covid patients were in critical care on Tuesday in Île-de-France where the occupancy rate of intensive care beds is close to 90%, or 30% more than three weeks ago.
In the sheaves, we are approaching the peak of the second wave (1136 patients in mid-November), while the hospitalization curve does not climb as clearly, for a reason that doctors are struggling to explain.
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Once again, we have to push the walls of the intensive care unit.
The regional health agency has given
"the firm order"
to deprogram 40% of the least urgent medical and surgical activities,
"on a case-by-case basis"
.
The objective: to increase the capacities now set at 1,577 critical care beds,
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