Editing Module:COVID-19 pandemic in France (section)

==Cooperation with neighbouring states==
On 29 February 2020, [[Monaco]] announced the first COVID-19 case, a man who was admitted to the [[Princess Grace Hospital Centre]], then transferred to Nice University Hospital in France.<ref name="BFMTV-2020-1"/> Also on 29 February 2020, three French nationals and one Italian resident of [[Ain]] were being hospitalised in [[Lausanne]] or other places in [[Switzerland]].<ref name="ledauphine.com"/>

On 22 March 2020, Switzerland announced that three hospitals near the Alsace region had agreed to take in any French-based patients after Alsace officials made a request for assistance.<ref name="swissinfo45634674"/> Patients from Grand Est were also taken into hospitals in [[Baden-Württemberg]], [[:Rhineland-Palatinate]], Saarland, and [[Hesse]] in Germany.

Up to 1 April 2020 over 100 COVID-19 patients from Alsace had been transferred for treatment to Germany, [[Luxembourg]], and Switzerland.<ref name="AutoQ7-42"/>