The results of the Regional Health Agency reports a decline in the number of Covid-19 patients hospitalized in Occitania. But also a slight increase in the daily average of new cases and the positivity rate.
1,475 hospitalizations in progress this Tuesday evening, according to the bulletin published by the Regional Health Agency of Occitanie, including 199 patients treated in intensive care. These two figures continue to decline, respectively 75 and 19 patients, but it is also at the cost of new deaths.
The bulletin for this Tuesday evening.
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The number of positive cases is on the rise again
If the load of hospitals is still declining, a little more slowly than last week however, they have recorded 74 deaths in the region, during the past three days. This brings the victims of Covid-19 in Hérault to 431, 293 in Gard, 118 in Aude, 115 in the Pyrénées-Orientales, 114 in Aveyron and 47 in Lozère, where the second wave was particularly dramatic .
![Indicators for the Occitanie region.](https://i0.wp.com/images.midilibre.fr/api/v1/images/view/5fcfd6988fe56f3daa591b36/full/image.jpg?w=900&ssl=1)
Indicators for the Occitanie region.
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The ARS observed Friday that the drops in indicators remained “fragile”. The Covid-19 epidemic is still active in Occitania, proximity indicators show “that the virus is still circulating strongly” to the point of even rising: 778 new positive cases are recorded daily in Occitanie, against 714 on Friday, with a rate of positivity in tests which goes up to 9% against 8.9%.
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