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“More than 30,000 dead in Europe
The number of deaths in Europe now tops 30,000, according to
Johns Hopkins University. Over 12,000 people have died in Italy, more than 9,000 people in Spain, and 3,532 people in France. At least 2,356 people have died in the United Kingdom.”
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“France uses high-speed trains and planes to move COVID-19 patients to available hospital beds
Trains and planes are being pressed into action to help France transfer COVID-19 patients from the worst-hit areas of the country to places with available hospital beds. Thirty-six patients from the Paris region were transferred by train to the western region of Brittany on Wednesday alone.
They were moved on two high-speed TGV trains that have effectively been transformed into rail ambulances, with passenger seats removed to allow for all the necessary medical equipment and personnel.
Six more patients were transferred from the east of France — the worst-hit region — to Toulouse in the southwest, by military plane earlier today.
Many of those being evacuated are on life-support — the first time ever that such high-risk transfers have been carried out in France. Officials say only patients in stable condition are being moved, and there is no added risk involved in the cross-country transfers.
Dozens of patients have also been transferred to neighboring Germany. Austria, which doesn't share a border with France, has offered to take more.”
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