French hospitals have almost 6,000 patients in intensive care units (ICU). France, one of the European countries most mourned by the coronavirus, this Thursday exceeded the threshold of 100,000 dead, health authorities reported as the country faces a third wave that has hospitals under heavy pressure.
Solo UK (127,000 dead) and Italy (115,000) had already exceeded this symbolic threshold in Europe, but other countries like Belgium O Portugal they have a higher per capita mortality rate. “We think of all those families, those close to them, the children who have lost one of their parents, or their grandfather, all those siblings in mourning, those lost friends” recalled the President Emmanuel Macron via tweet, NA reported.
“We have not reached the peak of hospitalizations, which means that we still have very difficult days ahead,” he recalled on Wednesday the spokesman of the French government, Gabriel Attal. Currently about 6,000 patients with coronavirus are being treated in intensive care units (ICU), which has forced several establishments to postpone non-urgent surgeries.
It is the first time since April 2020 that this ICU bed occupancy figure has been reached. Due to this outbreak, France once again decreed nationwide confinement measures at the end of March: the population cannot go out after 7:00 p.m. or move, at any time, more than 10 kilometers from their homes, except for reasons work or medical.
Kindergartens and primary and secondary schools are closed until April 26 at least, as well as non-essential shops. France came to vaccinate 22% of its population, but as the Government highlighted, 80% of the new infections in recent weeks correspond to the new British variant of the virus that affects more young people, a sector that has not yet been able to immunize.
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