The mayors of the twenty arrondissements of the capital met this morning, Monday March 1, at the initiative of the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo.
On the menu, follow-up to the restrictions already underway in the capital and perhaps beyond.
While Valérie Pécresse is also meeting the health authorities to take stock of the situation, let's look at the situation in the region.
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For two weeks, the data collected from the laboratories attest to a resurgence of the global epidemic in the Ile-de-France region.
Hospital services do not yet seem to observe an influx in their corridors.
For how long ?
A tour of the figures that must be on the table of communities and public authorities, the only ones able to decide on the follow-up to be given to the restrictions already in force.
Contamination on the rise in all Paris region departments
In two weeks, the number of people testing positive across the region jumped 22%.
Over one week, 323 people tested positive per 100,000 inhabitants, levels observed in the second week of October, when the second wave resumed.
It is above all the acceleration of the phenomenon that is cause for concern.
While screenings seemed stable at the start of February, the curve suddenly pointed up between the second and third week of February.
It is in Seine-Saint-Denis that the situation seems most worrying with an incidence of 385, an increase of 35% in two weeks.
The Val-de-Marne and the Val-d'Oise follow with 348 and 346 respectively.
Seine-et-Marne shows 332 contaminations per 100,000 inhabitants over a week, followed by Paris (326) then Essonne (302).
Even if the situation in the west of the region seems less alarming, with 274 in Yvelines and 270 in Hauts-de-Seine, the contaminations observed have nevertheless jumped by 19% and 12% from one week to the next. the other.
Unequal impact on hospital services across the territory
If the rise in contaminations in the Ile-de-France region is clear, it does not seem to translate into a sharp rebound in hospitalizations in the region.
The number of people currently hospitalized for Covid-19 is stagnating in most departments.
It even drops in Essonne, from 526 people currently hospitalized, against 729 at the beginning of February.
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Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis point to a deterioration in the hospital situation.
From one week to the next, 4% more boarders in the capital and 8% in the north, in Seine-Saint-Denis.
Discipline, weather and vaccines to the rescue of caregivers?
A more controlled epidemic or a simple shift in the care pathways?
The experience of October 2020 puts the second option on the table.
At the time, it took 15 days for the acceleration of positive screenings to translate into an influx into hospital services.
Given the lag observed in mid-October, the answer should not take long to emerge on the curves published by the health authorities.
It should even start to be noticeable in the coming week.
Unless everyone's precautions, the restrictions in force, the milder weather and especially the increase in the number of people vaccinated are taken into account.
To date, 18% of Ile-de-France residents over 70 had received a first dose.
They were 10% to have received the second.