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Coronavirus: why Ile-de-France remains in the orange zone

2020-05-29T22:24:21.748Z


A worrying incidence rate in Val-d'Oise would be one of the reasons for keeping the region in the orange zone.


It is the only region in mainland France to keep its yellow card. While swimming pools, gymnasiums and performance halls are about to reopen on June 2 throughout France, those of Ile-de-France will have to wait until June 22, said Prime Minister Édouard Philippe by unveiling yesterday "l 'act 2' of deconfinement. The epidemic situation there remains insufficiently stabilized in light of the criteria selected.

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There are four of these criteria. The first criterion is the incidence rate over 7 rolling days , ie the number of new cases identified over the last seven days per 100,000 inhabitants. The second, a corollary of the previous one, is the positivity rate , that is to say the number of positive tests compared to the number of global tests. The third is the effective circulation rate of the virus , the famous R (or R0 at the start of the epidemic), which allows us to know the average number of people infected by an infected person. Finally, the last criterion is the occupancy rate of the beds in intensive care. Vigilance thresholds and alert thresholds have been established for these criteria, beyond which the departments studied are classified respectively in the orange zone and the red zone.

According to the Ile-de-France Regional Health Agency (ARS), joined by Le Figaro , the region or some of its departments would continue to exceed the vigilance thresholds for several criteria. Thus the incidence rate, for which the vigilance threshold is 10 cases per 100,000 inhabitants: " Ile-de-France is below, except for the department 95, where it is located at 14 per 100,000 ". Nothing to report however on the side of the positivity threshold, which is uniformly in green for the whole region.

The ARS was not able to give a precise indication of the rate of effective circulation of the virus (R) in Ile-de-France, but notes that " the viral circulation is higher there than in many other regions and population density more favorable to trade ”. Finally, she notes that the regional occupancy rate of intensive care beds remains above the vigilance threshold, set at 40%: “ in Ile-de-France we are over 50%, or just over 600 Covid patients in resuscitation, to which must be added non-Covid patients ”.

The regional health authorities remind that it is necessary that all the departments of Ile-de-France pass below these thresholds to consider going green. " Today, the Val d'Oise remains in moderate vulnerability ", summarizes the ARS. In view of a still tense hospital situation, the entire Ile-de-France region is subject to a new, more cautious phase of deconfinement. The final decision will rest with the Ministry of Health.

Source: lefigaro

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