French COVID-19 patients in intensive care highest since end November

Medical staff work in the Intensive Care Unit where patients suffering from the coronavirus disease are treated at the Melun-Senart hospital, near Paris, France, Mar 8, 2021. PARIS: The number of people in intensive care in France who have COVID-19 is at the highest level since the end of November, health officials said on Tuesday as new infections rose slightly to 23,302 from 22,857 a week ago.

But despite a vaccination campaign focused on the oldest and most vulnerable people, those in intensive care with COVID-19 has risen steadily from less than 3,000 people at the end of January to nearly 4,000 on Tuesday. In the Paris region alone, almost 1,000 people are in ICU with COVID-19, but the government is not planning to put the Ile-de-France region around the capital into lockdown, France's public health chief said.He said lockdown would be a last-resort measure imposed only if the hospital system could no longer cope.

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