A patient, infected with coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is carried on a stretcher into a German military A400M aircraft during a transfer operation from Strasbourg to Ulm in Germany, France March 29, 2020. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
PARIS (Reuters) - France used two high-speed trains and a German military plane to move more than three dozen critically ill coronavirus patients on Sunday to ease the pressure on overwhelmed hospitals in eastern France.
The Grand Est region was the first in France to be hit by a wave of coronavirus infections that has rapidly moved westwards to engulf the greater Paris region, where hospitals are desperately adding intensive care beds to cope with the influx.
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