The health authorities have just published the latest Covid figures in our department … The epidemic is accelerating its progression. The incidence rate crosses the threshold of 1300/100 000 inhabitants, the hospital situation is tightened.
The deterioration of the health situation is accelerating further, since the main indicators for monitoring the epidemic are doubling in the space of a week.
This acceleration is part of a movement identical to that of the whole of France. It reflects the now strong presence of the Omicron variant, alongside the Delta variant which still remains in the majority. The incidence rate now exceeds 1,300 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over the last 7 days.
Strict compliance with braking and curfew measures taken by prefectural decree since 1is January is imposed more than ever on everyone.
Hospital tension is real, with a serious risk of saturation of our resuscitation and Covid medicine capacities. The hospitals have already started to deprogram operations in order to be able to increase this reception capacity: the resuscitation bed capacity has thus been increased to 95 beds. But despite this we have an occupancy rate close to 90%.
Note that 90% of patients hospitalized in intensive care do not have a complete vaccination schedule. This week, 10 deaths linked to Covid-19 are to be deplored.
Health situation
The prefecture and the Regional Health Agency regret to announce on January 4, 2022 the deaths, which occurred during the last 7 days, of ten patients from Reunion:
– 1 person was between 35 and 44 years old,
– 2 people were aged 45 to 64,
– 1 person was 65 to 74 years old,
– 6 people were over 75 years old.
Nine had comorbidities, and eight were not vaccinated. Nine had comorbidities, and eight were not vaccinated. The 2 vaccinated people presented with comorbidities.
From 24 to 31 December, 9,358 cases were identified in 7 days (vs 4 807 the previous week) .In the last week, screenings have increased: 76,913 (compared to 61,726 last week). The positivity rate is up to 12.2%.%. The highest positivity rates are among 0-14 year olds and 25-34 year olds.
The rate weekly incidence rose sharply to 1 093.3 / 100,000 inhabitants ( once morest 561.6 the previous week). The number of daily cases is 1,337 once morest 686 the previous week.
The number of screenings carried out during the week is increasing compared to last week with 76,913 tests carried out, a level equivalent to that of 2 weeks ago.
Among the 9,358 new cases during the period, 55 imported cases were recorded.
