A view shows the empty Trocadero square near the Eiffel tower as a lockdown is imposed to slow the spreading of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Paris, France March 18, 2020. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
PARIS (Reuters) - France's army transferred six patients in critical condition due to coronavirus to a military facility on Wednesday as it sought to ease the strain on hospitals in the east of the country that are struggling to cope with the spiralling number of cases.
The decision to move patients in intensive care to the southeastern city of Toulon, where several military medical hospitals are located, comes as doctors in the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in the eastern French cities of Mulhouse and Colmar warn that the system is at breaking point.
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