Infections accounted for by so-called UK variant is increasing by 50% a week in France
At 8.30am on Tuesday 26 January the waiting room of the emergency department at the Lariboisière hospital in Paris was still empty, festooned with signs reading “emergency department on strike” that predate the pandemic but have been left pointedly in place.
There were no shrieking sirens, nobody dressed in PPE. It was and continues to be calm, but the calm may not last.
