“In 10 days, 15 days or three weeks we may be overwhelmed,” he told the all-news channel BFMTV, pleading for a new lockdown, including for schools. “This triage will concern all patients, Covid and non-Covid, in particular for adult patients’ access to critical care,” they wrote. The Paris regional health authority ARS asked hospitals to set a goal of making 2,200 beds available for Covid patients. France counts a total of 27,712 Covid patients currently in hospital, of whom 1,017 were admitted Sunday. In the past 24 hours, 131 patients died of Covid in hospital, compared with 194 over the previous 24 hours.

Source: The Local March 29, 2021 06:33 UTC