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France to evacuate around 100 Covid-19 patients from Paris

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France's government said Sunday it plans to evacuate around 100 Covid-19 patients from intensive care units in the Paris region this week as hospitals struggle to keep up with a surge in cases. With the transfers, officials hope to avoid a new lockdown for the roughly 12 million people in and around the capital as they race to step up a vaccination drive that got off to a slow start.

Added on the 15/03/2021 16:21:24 - Copyright : France 24 EN

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