Braving Bad Weather, Choppers Continue to Ferry COVID-19 Patients in France
Special chopper services began to fly coronavirus patients out of eastern France. This has become a daily ritual in eastern France as intensive care units there have been unable to cope with the numbers of critically-ill cases and have instead been transferring patients to nearby Germany, Switzerland and Luxembourg. The area in eastern France around the city of Strasbourg has seen one of the biggest coronavirus clusters in France.
The pilot of the French military helicopter wears a face mask while transporting coronavirus patients from Metz, France, for treatment at the University Hospital in Essen, Germany. (Image: AP)
A patient infected with coronavirus is carried on a stretcher by a French rescue team before being transferred by a helicopter of the civil security (Securite Civile) from Strasbourg university hospital to Pforzheim in Germany as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in France. (Image: Reuters)
A coronavirus patient from Metz in France is transported from a military helicopter for treatment at the University Hospital in Essen, Germany. (Image: AP)
A coronavirus patient from Metz in France is transported from a military helicopter for treatment at the University Hospital in Essen, Germany, in bad weather. (Image: AP)
A patient infected with coronavirus is carried on a stretcher by a French rescue team before being transferred by a helicopter of the civil security (Securite Civile) from Strasbourg university hospital to Pforzheim in Germany as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in France. (Image: Reuters)
A coronavirus patient from Metz in France is transported from a military helicopter for treatment at the University Hospital in Essen, Germany. (Image: AP)
