The local disparities between the French departments are very strong.
The State has already decided Monday to strengthen health measures in the Alpes-Maritimes where the situation was worsening.
The south-eastern department will be confined over its entire coastline (which concentrates 90% of its population) for the next two weekends.
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However, the Alpes-Maritimes are not the only department where the situation is deteriorating.
"
We are moving towards a complicated month of March
," Jean Castex already warned Friday, February 19 in an interview in
Sud-Ouest
.
Dunkirk and the North
With an incidence rate of 901 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in Dunkirk, the situation is taking alarming turns.
"
We are clearly no longer on a wave, we are on what we can call a tide,
" comments Dr Christophe Couturier, head of emergencies at the Dunkirk hospital.
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Jean Castex, responding to the request of mayor DVG Patrice Vergriete, announced on Tuesday that new measures would be taken for the city.
The city council recalled Monday that the city had
"an ever higher rate of cases of English variants
", about 72% of the cases identified.
However, if the incidence rate in Dunkirk is very high, it is less alarming in the rest of the department.
With 293 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, it is much higher than the national average (201.7 cases per 100,000 inhabitants) but still much lower than that of the Alpes-Maritimes (583.2).
In the neighboring Pas-de-Calais, it has increased by more than 15.5 points to exceed 340 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Moselle and the Grand Est
In this department of the Grand Est, the incidence rate was in the last seven days 315.2 positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants, or 9.5 points more than the previous week.
This figure, if lower than that recorded in the Alpes-Maritimes, remains well above the national average (201.7), so that Germany is preparing to classify the French department as a "high risk area ".
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"
Hospital pressure, on the other hand, continues to increase with 547 people hospitalized, including 86 in critical care
", warns Lamia Himer, territorial delegate of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) Grand Est on LCI.
The occupancy rate of intensive care beds is in fact 95%.
The strong presence of variants, particularly South African in the department, is causing concern.
"
More than a third of the cases in circulation would be of South African origin
", had thus clarified Olivier Véran last February 17, which specified that it was about the "
only place of the territory
" where such a rate was observed .
Paris and Île-de-France
“
The situation has been tense for several weeks.
There is a steady and slow increase in the number of intensive care admissions,
”Paris hospital director Martin Hirsch declared on France Inter on Monday, February 22.
“
In January, we had 25 admissions per day.
Today we have 50 every day.
"
The Paris department has over the last seven days an incidence rate of 290.8 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, a figure much higher than the national average (201.7) but much lower than that of the Alpes-Maritimes (583.2) .
In the capital, the filling rate of intensive care beds was 57%, in Île-de-France 66%, or 6 points above the alert threshold, but it also remains much lower than that observed in the Alpes-Maritimes (95%) or Nice (117%).
The meeting
The Indian Ocean island is not subject to a general curfew, only seven municipalities are subject to it from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.
Only Reunion recorded 700 new positive cases in just one week.
The presence of the South African variant worries the authorities and could lead to further measures.
"
In view of the evolution of the epidemic situation in Reunion, I asked the prefect of Reunion to make proposals to me to strengthen the protection of Reunionese and Reunionese against the circulation of Covid-19
", declared Monday February 22 on Twitter Sébastien Lecornu, Minister of Overseas.
Friday February 18, the prefect of Reunion, Jacques Billant warned, during an interview with Reunion the 1st, that a "
curfew on the whole island is possible in the coming days
".
For now, the island's incidence rate is low: 91.6 cases per 100,000 inhabitants
.
However,
"
if the number of municipalities with an incidence rate greater than 100 per 100,000 inhabitants continues to climb, we will consider a generalization of the curfew at 10 p.m., the question is on the table
", declared the prefect of the 'Isle.
