The evolution of Covid-19 cases in Île-de-France worries the authorities.
While weekend containment measures were decided in the Alpes-Maritimes, Pas-de-Calais and Dunkirk, the entire Paris region could be subject to new restrictions, depending on of the evolution of the figures.
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Since the end of January, there has in fact been an increase in the incidence rate (number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants) in Île-de-France compared to the national average, which has even been declining since the end of January. February 25.
New phenomenon, because since November 2020, the curves had evolved in the same way.
Then the dropout accelerated from February 15.
It now translates into a gap that has never been greater.
As of March 13, the national incidence rate appears at 250, that of the region at 419.
"
The situation is very worrying with an English variant of the coronavirus, more contagious [...] which has gained the upper hand and is spreading much faster,
" Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo warned on Monday on France Inter, unfavorable last week, as the president of the Île-de-France region Valérie Pécresse, to a weekend confinement on her territory.
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Among the eight departments in the region,
Seine-Saint-Denis
is the most affected, with an incidence rate of 499, well above the maximum alert threshold set at 250 by the government.
With it, four other departments,
Val-de-Marne
,
Val-d'Oise
and
Seine-et-Marne
and
Essonne
are above the regional average (at 419) and well beyond the national average (250).
As a corollary, the hospitalization curve is also on an upward slope.
However, at the national level, we have also seen a drop in the figures, admittedly chaotically, but certain, for a month.
With
5,907 patients hospitalized in Île-de-France,
the region accounts for nearly a quarter of all hospitalizations for Covid in France, while it represents less than 20% of the French population.
Logically, the number of patients in
intensive care
is on the rise in the region.
After approaching the bar of 500 patients treated in these services at the 2020-21 hinge, there are almost double today.
With 1177 patients on March 16 in the various intensive care units in Ile-de-France for "
less than 1050 beds
" available, "we are in a situation of
very strong tension
", told AFP Aurélien Rousseau, director General of the Regional Health Agency (ARS).
As a result, the ARS gave "
the firm order
" to hospitals and clinics to deprogram 40% of their least urgent medical and surgical activities to increase capacity, with a target now set at 1,577 intensive care beds.
