Status quo or new turn of the screw?
The executive must decide on new health restrictions, such as local confinements, in the face of the Covid-19 epidemic which is increasing in certain territories but is not exploding for the moment at the national level.
The executive hopes "
a return to a more normal life (...) perhaps from mid-April
", even if in the meantime "
weeks of heavy weather
"
will take place
, the spokesperson said on Wednesday. from the Gabriel Attal government, specifying that Jean Castex will hold a press conference on Thursday.
Since last week, twenty departments are still under increased surveillance, including the entire Paris region, where the English variant of the virus, more contagious, represents more than half of new cases of Covid-19.
The under surveillance zones cover the whole of
Île-de-France,
the
Rhone,
the
Bouches-du-Rhône,
the
Oise,
the
North,
the
Pas-de-Calais,
the
Somme,
the
Drome,
the
Moselle,
the
Meurthe et-Moselle
and
Eure-et-Loir.
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Some have seen their incidence rate skyrocket, such as
Pas-de-Calais
and
Seine-Saint-Denis
, which exceed 400 cases of new patients per 100,000 inhabitants over seven days, well above the threshold of maximum alert set at 250 by the health authorities.
Faced with the progression of the virus, the prefecture of Pas-de-Calais will also request a confinement of its department for three weekends in a row.
But if some territories are experiencing a constant progression of the epidemic, in particular
Val-de-Marne,
Var or Paris
, other departments experience a slight lull over a week, such as
Moselle
or
the Alpes-Maritimes.
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Several territories that were not part of the departments placed under surveillance are recording a rebound in the epidemic.
The incidence rate, that is to say the new cases detected, is increasing very strongly there.
This is particularly the case for
Southern Corsica
,
Orne, Aube, Deux-Sèvres, Hautes-Alpes, and Corrèze.
It should also be noted that it is the departments bordering Paris (Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-d'Oise, Val-de-Marne and Seine-et-Marne) which still record a strong circulation of the virus.
If the incidence rate has fallen slightly in recent days in
the
Drôme,
the pressure in the hospitals of the department remains very strong.
The hospital pressure (number of intensive care patients with coronavirus compared to the number of intensive care beds that there were before the epidemic) was 158%.
Highest rate in France.
Like last week,
Eure-et-Loir, Pas-de-Calais and Oise
also remain facing hospital tension.
But new departments are emerging such as
Haute-Saône, Vosges and Hautes-Alpes.
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In this last graph, it is mainly new departments that appear in the ranking.
The rebound in the epidemic observed in
Corse-du-Sud
is also reflected in a very significant increase in the occupancy rate of intensive care beds.
Vigilance is high in the
Jura.
The rural and border department of Switzerland is in the leading group of the metropolitan departments most affected.
