In one week, 16 deaths due to coronavirus were registered in Guadeloupe, said the prefecture on Tuesday, a record number since the start of the epidemic, bringing the total number of deaths in the archipelago to 42.
From September 14 to 20, “We deplore 16 new deaths having in common the presence of comorbidities (obesity, diabetes, arterial hypertension)”, indicates the prefecture. “The youngest was 46, the oldest 84 and four people were under 65”, according to the same source.
This represents twice as many deaths in seven days as during the first two weeks of September. And September’s figures have more than doubled the number of hospital deaths recorded in the archipelago since the start of the epidemic.
4,487 cases
“The number of people admitted to hospital is increasing and with it the number of serious cases among populations with co-morbidities, including young patients”, warns the prefecture. On September 20, there were 24 people hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the CHUG.
In total, 4,487 cumulative cases of coronavirus have been identified in the archipelago, including 2,288 still “Potentially contaminating”, according to the same source.
Guadeloupe is very clearly above the alert threshold for the incidence rate with 290.54 positive people per 100,000 inhabitants over a period of one week. The positivity rate increases: at 22.57% it is above the alert threshold set at 10%.
Increasingly strong tension at the CHU
The virus reproduction factor (1.05) is “Stable and close to 1”, and the prefecture intends to pass it “Below 1”.
Faced with growing tensions at the CHU in particular, the regional prefect, who had already taken a number of measures on 12 and 13 September, handed over to the Prime Minister “An action plan articulated in three parts” (Editor’s note: health, prevention and restrictive measures), which notably includes the implementation of the ORSAN plan, making it possible to coordinate the territorial organization of care between the various health establishments, and since Monday, a reduction in the flow of passengers between Guadeloupe and Martinique.
The Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly said Tuesday during a hearing before the Senate commission of inquiry on the evaluation of public policies in the face of pandemics, that she would propose Wednesday, in defense council, to send to Guadeloupe a around thirty personnel from the army health service.
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