Coronavirus: France moves patients on high-speed trains to ease pressure on worst-hit hospitals

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France also uses a German military plane as it seeks to ease pressure on intensive care units in the east of the country.

Thirty-six critically-ill coronavirus patients have been transferred across France in two high-speed trains.

They were transported from eastern France, where hospitals risk becoming overwhelmed, to the Nouvelle-Acquitaine region in the southwest. "We urgently need to relieve congestion in the region's intensive care units, because you have to stay one step ahead," Francois Braun, head of SAMU paramedics, told RTL radio.Paramedics carrying a patient onto a German military plane in Strasbourg

Carriages carrying 36 people were specially converted, and a line of ambulances waited outside Bordeaux station on their arrival. Paramedics in hazmat suits also loaded several patients on life-support onto a German Airbus A400M aircraft in Strasbourg and transferred them across the border to the German city of Ulm.

 

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