Despite the confinement decreed in Seine-Maritime and in the Eure, despite the curfew measures that apply everywhere, the virus is spreading more and more. In the situation report published on March 23, the Regional Health Agency announces that the incidence rate has increased by 30% in one week.
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The numbers are such that they no longer have much meaning. The Regional Health Agency indicates that it will no longer communicate the famous incidence rate (the number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants) which served as a bit of a compass, a point of reference. The ARS considers it more meaningful to communicate trends. These figures are not more encouraging …
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“The incidence rates for the region and for all of the departments have registered a marked increase, particularly in the department of Orne. In one week:
Normandie : + 30,3%
Calvados: + 23.6%
Your: + 25.6%
Some: + 33.1%
Orne : + 52%
Seine-Maritime: + 31.6%“
The evolution of the incidence rate in Normandy on March 23, 2021
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Blood pressure in the hospital: the peak of the second wave is exceeded
This active circulation of the virus generates strong hospital pressure. On March 22, “1,307 people were hospitalized for COVID-19 (against 1,278 on 03/14 = +29), with a number of people in intensive care which remains constant and high: 169 people in intensive care on March 22 (against 168 on 03/14) “, indicates the ARS.
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The peak of the second wave observed on November 16 (167 people in intensive care) has already been passed. New hospital admissions are the most numerous in Eure and Seine-Maritime. The Regional Health Agency sees the “sign of the anteriority of the epidemic resumption in these two departments”.
#COVID19
???? Here @thomas_deroche, was the guest of @ F3bnormandie It evokes :
• protection from severe forms through vaccination
• the containment of#Your and some #SeineMaritime
• The increased circulation of the virus in the#Orne and everywhere in Normandy ⬇ pic.twitter.com/zG1jEzYY0C– ARS Normandie (@ars_normandie) March 24, 2021
The race against variants
The most exposed hospitals (Rouen, Elbeuf, Évreux and Vernon) are invited to deprogram 30% of non-urgent surgical activity, a measure intended to “anticipate the influx of Covid patients, as well as to organize jointly, by the sharing of operating theaters and the transfer of professionals, the continuity of the highest priority non-Covid activities “.
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Last week, “123,000 tests were carried out in Normandy, including 11,073 positive. The positivity rate is progressing to 8.3% (against 7.5% at the last situation update) and testifies to the viral circulation on the territory “, underlines the ARS which notes that the British variant, more contagious, is always more present.
In an attempt to counter the spread, forty ephemeral screening centers are open this week in Normandy. The list can be found here.
485,000 Normans vaccinated
The vaccination campaign seems to be the only effective response to this pandemic. It is currently ending in establishments housing the elderly since “97% of EHPAD / USLD residents received the first injection and 79% the second”. The ARS ensures that half of Normans over the age of 75 have received at least the first injection.
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Vaccine allocations seem to be accelerating: the Regional Health Agency indicates that “more than 6,200 new appointments were thus offered over this weekend to the Normans”, in addition to the usual activity.
Who can get vaccinated today?
© ARS Normandie
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