France's COVID-19 hospitalisations at a near five-month high

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France’s hospital system is under heavy pressure from the pandemic, with the number of people treated in intensive care units for COVID-19 at the highest in almost a year

FILE PHOTO: Medical workers, wearing protective gear, work in the Intensive Care Unit where patients suffering from the coronavirus disease are treated at Cambrai hospital, France, April 1, 2021. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol//File Photo

The health ministry reported on Tuesday that the number of people in ICUs with COVID-19 had increased by 193 over 24 hours to 5,626, a peak since April 20 2020, when France was in its first March-May 2020 lockdown. The total number of people hospitalised for the disease rose by 732 over 24 hours, the sharpest daily increase for more than four months, to 30,639, breaching the 30,000 limit for the first time since Nov. 24 and closing in on the Nov. 16 record of 33,497.

 

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This is the one, and only benefit of the vaccine. To flatten the curve on ICU visits, and relieve the strain on hospital staff. So what are France’s current vaccine figures and protocols, and why do these numbers remain so dismal?

Turkey is in the same context

En cuáles circunstancias se utiliza la posición prono? ..MonicaBatlle4

HenkMolenaars its like the flu. It goes up and down... this is normal during every new virus. After this flow it'll be nearly gone, exactly like virolists say: this epidemic will last for about 1 -2 years, then only the really weak will fall (old and weak people).

Is this the response you wish the public to elicit?

A fermé des lis chaque année normal...

What do you expect when Hotels are putting on exclusive dinners for people who are assured they are COVID-19 free functions, madness, selfish Bastards

The cost of TOTAL UNPREPARATION ...and piles of lies shuffling mistakes under the rug!! Then Acceptability = ZERO

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