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Covid has not ‘overwhelmed’ French hospitals — yet

10 October 2020

6:00 PM

10 October 2020

6:00 PM

Britain is often said to be two weeks behind France in the new Covid wave — so how bad are things in France? Lille, Grenoble, Lyon and Saint-Étienne have switched to maximum alert, with two thirds of regions on ‘enhanced alert’. Things are at their most worrying in Paris, where hospitals have been given permission to cancel routine surgery.

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Julie Ezvan is a French journalist working in London.


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