With an incidence rate of 180 people infected for 100,000 inhabitants, the incidence rate in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté remains this Friday, December 11, higher than the national average. During the weekly press point organized in the prefecture of Dijon, Pierre Pribille, the director of the regional health agency warned against a possible relaxation of barrier gestures: “We are on a plateau, with an incidence number that is no longer falling and this high plateau may start to rise again, and increase the pressure in hospitals in the region.”
1,700 people hospitalized in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
In the aftermath of the government’s announcements on an easing of confinement, hospitals in the Region remain in tension. Evidenced by 240 people transferred to hospitals in Great East since the start of the second wave. “It is a question of giving breath to nursing staff who are in great demand and also for the most serious patients who require surgery, to transfer them to suitable structures,” adds the director of the ARS.
In total in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, these are 1700 people who are hospitalized for forms of Covid-19 including 194 are in intensive care. is 65 % of its reached capacity.
For the prefect of the Region, Fabien Sudry, if the health situation is improving in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, it remains worrying in view of the figures provided by the regional health agency.
In addition, only one school remains closed in Côte-d’Or this Friday, December 11 for cases of Covid-19. This is the elementary school Portfolios at Fontaine-les-Dijon. The number of infected students in the Dijon Academy is 166, down over the past seven days.
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