“The variant (Delta) is in the majority throughout the region, in all the departments.
The region is one of the first to exceed the alert threshold of 50 if it is not the first ”, indicated during a press point the regional director of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) Pierre Ricordeau.
This figure is set to increase on Tuesday.
The head of the ARS reported an "unprecedented speed" of the spread in the Pyrénées-Orientales with, "in one week, a fivefold increase in the incidence rate", especially among young people.
The situation in this border department of Spain, with 129.9 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by the two most populous departments in the region, Haute-Garonne (63 cases per 100,000 inhabitants) and Hérault (58 , 9).
A rate, explains the ARS, undoubtedly due "to the tourist aspect on the coast and the density.
There is also an impact linked to the proximity to Spain.
“Ariège and Aude are very close to the alert threshold.
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In Spain, the very touristy regions of Catalonia and Valencia took new measures Monday to limit nightlife in order to curb the transmission of Covid-19 on the rise throughout the country.
Mobilization around “completely new” vaccination
Despite exceeding the alert threshold in Occitanie, there is "not yet a significant health impact on our hospital system but the decline has been interrupted", according to the ARS.
Action plans have been deployed in all departments in the face of this “epidemic rebound”.
The mobilization for vaccination is "completely new" in Occitania with in six months 2 adults out of 3 having received a first injection and 1/3 fully vaccinated, according to the ARS.
In all, 5.2 million doses have been administered in Occitania.
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But it remains “still insufficient for some of the priority people because of their age or their state of health”.
For example, there are still 100,000 people over the age of 65 who have not yet been vaccinated.
Emmanuel Macron put the unvaccinated under high pressure on Monday by imposing the health pass at the entrance to most public places and by making vaccination compulsory for caregivers and those in contact with vulnerable people, sanctions to the key.