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Warning over ICU capacity as Covid cases rise in Paris – RTE.ie
Hospitals in Paris could have up to 90% of intensive care beds taken up with Covid-19 patients as soon as next week.
Hospitals in Paris could have up to 90% of intensive care beds taken up with Covid-19 patients as soon as next week.
The warning came as France braces for new measures to slow a surge in cases.
“It’s inevitable,” Martin Hirsch, the head of the 39 hospitals in Paris and its suburbs, told the Parisien newspaper.
“By around 24 October, there will be a minimum of 800 to 1,000 Covid patients in intensive care, representing 70 to 90 percent of our current capacity,” he said.
The prospect puts …
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