Coronavirus across Europe: ICU shortage in France as Belgium urges Covid-positive doctors to keep working

COUNTRIES ACROSS EUROPE are bringing in tougher Covid-19 restrictions to stem an increase in cases that is putting pressure on healthcare services.

An intensive care doctor in the city of Liege told the Washington Post that doctors who had tested positive for Covid-19 have been told to return to work if they don’t have symptoms, such is the demand. The country had among the lowest number of cases during the first wave of the pandemic but it is now recording some 15,000 new cases a day.Source: Google

That brought the overall number of people in intensive care to 2,761, nearly half the country’s overall capacity of 5,800. “The outbreak is out of control,” the infectious disease specialist Gilles Pialoux at Paris’s Tenon hospital said on BFM television. As the situation continues to worsen, Slovenians will not be allowed to leave their home municipalities from today.

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