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Added on the 29/03/2020 14:37:00 - Copyright : L'Est Républicain
The Covid-19 epidemic has killed 20,796 people in France since it began in March, including 531 deaths recorded since Monday, but the pressure on hospitals continues to ease gradually, announces France's Director General of Health. SOUNDBITES
France reports a decrease in the number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care for the sixth day in a row, with 91 fewer people being treated in intensive care units. SOUNDBITE
Several ambulances head to Paris-Austerlitz station with Covid-19 patients on board. The patients are due to be transferred onto fully medicalised trains that will take them to the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France. IMAGES
Patients from the Greater Paris region suffering from Covid-19 arrive in Brittany on a medicalised train. IMAGES of train arriving and patients arriving
The new London field hospital for coronavirus, set up at the Excel London exhibition centre, is ready to receive its first patients. The Excel centre has been converted into the NHS Nightingale hospital to provide an extra 4000 beds. IMAGES
Ambulances carrying patients evacuated from the Ile-de-France region on board the second medicalised high-speed train that left Paris in the morning leave the train station in Rennes, under the applause of locals. IMAGES