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Added on the 19/09/2021 19:52:20 - Copyright : Euronews FR
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.
It's part of moves to free up capacity in Paris with the peak of the COVID-19 epidemic expected in the coming week.
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