The epidemic wave is still growing in France, with more than 500 deaths in 24 hours, and patient transfers are accelerating Thursday, April 2 in Ile-de-France to relieve hospitals reached saturation. The number of resuscitation patients exceeded 6,000 on Wednesday evening, more than the capacity of resuscitation beds in the country before the crisis, which was 5,000.
According to the latest official report, the epidemic caused a total of 4,032 deaths in one month. This figure does not yet take into account the balance sheets in particular in retirement homes, which are being compiled and which the authorities hope to be able to give from Thursday.
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Patient transfers are accelerating
After the Grand Est, it is Ile-de-France which is hit hard with more than 9,600 people hospitalized. “We are at the end of our hospitalization capacities”, Aurélien Rousseau, director of the Ile-de-France regional health agency, warned on Wednesday.
The pressure must therefore be relieved by transferring patients to less affected regions for the time being, and 36 patients were thus evacuated on board two TGVs to Brittany on Wednesday. Another hundred patients were to be transferred from hospitals in the Paris region to Center-Val de Loire, Normandy and the Pays de la Loire region by helicopter rotations between the end of the day Wednesday and Thursday. A new medical TGV must also evacuate patients from the Grand Est region, still saturated, on Friday. Austria will in turn receive at least three French patients transferred from this area.
Patient transfers constitute “An excellent solution: to give oxygen to Parisian hospitals we must send our patients to areas where the disease should not arrive in two or three weeks”, said Philippe Juvin, chief of emergencies at Georges Pompidou Hospital.
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Curfew established in Gadeloupe and Martinique
All of Martinique and Guadeloupe have been under curfew since Wednesday evening between 8 pm and 5 am, to enforce containment measures, announced the prefects of the two departments. In Guadeloupe, all travel is prohibited during these hours, with the exception of commuting cannot be postponed and those motivated by a medical emergency, according to the prefecture.
With 128 confirmed cases Monday evening, 15 people in intensive care and 3 deaths, Martinique is “Hard hit” and “Is getting worse every day” of the health report related to the coronavirus, deplored the prefect. Guadeloupe, it, lists 1er April 125 confirmed cases, including 14 patients in intensive care and 6 deaths.
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Mobilization of youtubers to help the nursing staff
The Mcfly & Carlito youtubers are preparing a charity day for Thursday in support of caregivers and nursing homes, with the participation of many personalities.
“On Thursday we will be all day live to collect donations to buy medical and paramedical equipment for hospitals, prepare meals for caregivers and buy digital tablets so that patients in nursing homes can communicate with their loved ones. “
From 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., on their YouTube channel to almost 5.5 million subscribers, the two videographers have planned to invite musicians M, Christine and the Queens, Pomme, Roméo Elvis, Big Flo & Oli, but also comedians and youtubers Squeezie, Mister V, Léna Situations, Loris Giuliani, Natoo, Hakim Jemili, or the actors Guillaume Canet, Edouard Baer and Pierre Niney. The sums collected will go to “Covid-19 Emergency Aid Fund”.
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André shoes, the first victim of the coronavirus
The shoe brand André, more than a century old, is the first French company victim of the coronavirus: it was placed in receivership after having to close all its stores and lost nearly 4 million euros in fifteen days.
Purchased eighteen months ago by the online sales site Spartoo, the brand, which generated in 2019 a turnover of 100 million euros but suffered 10 million losses, has some 600 employees including l job is now threatened. André filed for bankruptcy on March 23 and the placement decision in receivership was validated Tuesday by the Commercial Court of Grenoble, where the headquarters of Spartoo is located.
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