France recorded its worst daily coronavirus death toll on Monday, exceeding 3,000 for the first time, and army helicopters transported critical patients from the east to hospitals overseas as the country battled to free up space in life-support units.
A patient, infected with coronavirus disease , is carried on a stretcher into a Caiman helicopter from the French army during transfer operations from Strasbourg to Germany and Switzerland, France March 30, 2020. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has warned the country’s 67 million people that the toughest weeks in the fight against epidemic are still to come and doctors in the capital said on Monday they were close to saturation point. France has increased the number of beds in intensive care units from 5,000 to about 10,000 since the start of the crisis and it is scrambling to reach 14,500.
Health officials believe that the benefits of a national lockdown that has been in place since March 17 will begin to be felt by the end of the week. To ease the stress on the system, officials want to send some patients to other countries and to less stricken regions to make space in the worst hit areas so that if the peak shifts, then the capital in particular could again take patients in two weeks’ time.
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