The situation with Covid-19 in the greater Paris area is “extremely worrying” and the government will take additional restrictive measures there if the pandemic continues to develop at the same rate, said the country’s Health Minister Olivier Veran.
Although the number of new cases does not show an exponential increase, the number of ICU hospitalizations has risen to new 3.5-month high nationwide, approaching 4,000, at a time when France is facing new, more dangerous executives.
“Right now, we can say that the variants are more contagious and more dangerous and now account for more than two-thirds of infections in France,” said Olivier Veran.
According to him, a young patient goes to the intensive care unit in the greater Paris area every 12 minutes, noting that he does not know when the peak will be recorded there.
In the Paris area, the number of patients with Covid-19 in the ICU approaching 1,000 and may reach 1,500 by the end of March, If the current trend continues, the French Minister of Health warned, stressing that this level would be “critical” for the hospitals in the area.
«We will take all necessary measures if the spread of the pandemic remains at its current pace“, He underlined.
The number of new cases in France increased by 27,166 yesterday and now stands at 3.99 million, the sixth highest in the world.
In the last 24 hours, 265 deaths were recorded, with the total death toll from Covid-19 now standing at 89,830, the seventh highest in the world.
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