2023-12-20 05:01:00
If the rate of emergency room visits remains low, Covid-19 is on the rise once more in several departments.
In many departments, we will have to deal with Covid-19 during the end-of-year holidays. Since October, the virus has been circulating more and more actively as we got closer to winter, reaching high rates in the Grand-Est, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Auvergne-Rhône- Alps, PACA and Occitanie.
The incidence rate is particularly high in Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin. While the alert threshold was set at 50 at the start of the epidemic crisis in 2020, these two departments respectively display a rate of 182 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and 165 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (figures from Public Health France between 4 and December 10). These values had not been reached since the end of the crisis in 2022.
All indicators are on the rise, suggesting that Covid-19 will be increasingly present at least until the end of winter.
The situation in your department
The latest figures from Public Health France take stock of the situation during the week of December 4 to 10. We note that the incidence rate already exceeded 100 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in six departments of the Grand-Est region, as well as in Var (PACA region). More and more territories are well above 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, which is the old indicator symbolizing the alert threshold.
Here is the situation in your department:
Circulation of the virus at two speeds in Occitania
Occitania is split in two regarding the evolution of the situation: the circulation of the virus is exploding at the foot of the Pyrenees and along the Mediterranean, while the epidemic tends to slowly fade away in the other departments. The incidence rate has almost doubled in Ariège and the Pyrénées-Orientales in the space of two weeks.
We take stock by comparing the situation with that of the week of November 20 to 26:
- Lozère: 14.37 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 18.28 the week of November 20 to 26)
- Lot: 25.78 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 32.09)
- Gard: 32.38 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 26.28)
- Tarn: 34.35 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to (31.80)
- Hautes-Pyrénées: 35.06 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 37.23)
- Aveyron: 35.68 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 28.19)
- Gers: 39.01 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 45.25)
- Haute-Garonne: 47.59 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 45.45)
- Tarn-et-Garonne: 48.82 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to (52.61)
- Hérault: 60.93 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 45.16)
- Pyrénées-Orientales: 62.01 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 38.54)
- Aude: 68.98 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 48.44)
- Ariège: 92.08 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 47.67)
Emergency visits low but increasing
According to the latest report from Public Health France as of December 13, wastewater reveals “a sharp increase in the detection of Covid-19”, while syndromic indicators are still on the rise in the city and at the hospital.
The number of visits to emergency rooms remains relatively low, even if it is increasing. Public Health France noted 1.5% of visits the week of December 4 to 10, or 5,428 people, compared to 1.2% the previous week. “The number of hospitalizations following suspected Covid-19 was 2,221, or 3.2% of all hospitalizations (compared to 2.7% the previous week).”
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