Twenty patients were transported from the hard-hit eastern region of France, where hospitals are operating at overcapacity, to the western Loire Valley, where facilities still have plenty of beds.
Emergency medical personnel walk by a high-speed TGV train in Strasbourg station on Wednesday, preparing to evacuate 20 COVID-19 patients to hospitals in western France.Frederick Florin/AFP via Getty Images
TV news reports on Thursday showed the patients being carried on stretchers onto one of France's high-speed TGV trains, where their beds are strapped to platforms positioned across the tops of passenger seats. The coronavirus has claimed more than 1,300 lives so far in France, where there are more than 25,000 confirmed cases of infection. Almost half the deaths have occurred in the eastern region known as the Grand Est, which includes the cities of Strasbourg, Reims and Metz.
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