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Landes: the Delta variant is progressing with some 250 cases

2021-06-18T09:01:53.721Z


The Delta variant is progressing in the Landes, with now some 250 proven and probable cases and around 30% of Covid-19 contaminations, but the ...


The Delta variant is progressing in the Landes, with now some 250 proven and probable cases and around 30% of Covid-19 contaminations, but the overall health situation is improving in the department, the authorities said Monday, June 14.

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"

The health situation is improving

" in the Landes, explained the prefect Cécile Bigot-Dekeyzer during a press briefing, but the Delta variant, identified for the first time in India in April, "

is very present and its presence progress

”. "

We have 114 proven cases, that is to say sequenced and screened, in the Landes

" and 134 "

probable

" cases, detailed Didier Couteaud, departmental delegate of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) Nouvelle-Aquitaine, commenting on the results, still partial, of the sequencing of some 250 positive Covid-19 tests carried out last week after the announcement of the existence of this variant in this southwestern department and the first "

contact-tracing

" operations .

"

We only have part of the results but in 99% of cases, it is the Delta variant that emerges

", explained the head of the ARS.

The Delta variant is progressing but we are seeing a decrease in the number of positive cases in the department.

It is because this variant eats the others, between quotation marks

”.

Now in the Landes, "

30% of those contaminated (by Covid-19) are by the Delta variant

", added the prefect, specifying that 15 of the 18 communities of municipalities in the department were now concerned, against six the previous week when only about thirty cases were confirmed.

Three patients in intensive care infected with the variant

According to Didier Couteaud, 63% of the positive for the Delta variant are under 50 years old and 66% are not vaccinated. "

Less than 10% of them have a complete vaccination schedule (2 doses, editor's note) which, for some, does not necessarily date from 15 days (before contamination, editor's note)

", he added, specifying that two of the three Covid patients in intensive care in the department were cases of the Delta variant.

The Delta variant spotted in the Landes, unrelated to foreign countries, has a 452R2 mutation, classified as a "

mutation of interest

", the health manager further explained. According to Cécile Bigot-Dekeyzer, it "

begins to appear in other parts of the country

". The representative of the State also explained that the "

action plan

" put in place last week, which is based on the "

three pillars test-alert-protect

", would continue to be deployed and called on the population to to get vaccinated. In terms of screening in schools, 5,000 tests will be carried out this week (6,000 last week), explained the academic management of Landes.

Source: lefigaro

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