The fifth wave is not over, although the peak of contamination was reached in Brittany as in France, several weeks ago. After a month of fall, the figures of the ARS (Regional Health Agency) Brittany testify this Friday, March 4 to a decline which continues… but clearly marks time.
25,229 new cases of covid were recorded by ARS Bretagne this week. A figure down only 3.2% compared to Friday, February 25. In three weeks, between February 4 and February 25, contamination had dropped by almost 75%. This week, they have therefore remained almost stable… and are still very high.
The incidence rate lost 83.9 points this week. It is this Friday of 716.7 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, a drop of 10% in seven days. At its highest on Friday January 28, it had reached 3,458.1 cases per 100,000 population. Which means that if more than three out of 100 Bretons were positive for covid at the end of January, they are now less than one out of 100.
At the national level, the incidence rate is approaching a little more than 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants every day. It was this Friday of 545.87. The gap widens with the Breton indicator.
The positivity rate continues its slow decline that began three weeks ago. While 39.6% of tests were positive just a month ago, the positivity rate fell below 30% this week. It lost 1.5 points in seven days to settle at 29.1%. A drop which confirms that the virus is circulating less, regardless of the number of tests carried out.
The indicator is well below the national level, since it is currently 20.1%.
Hospitalizations of covid patients fall back below 500 this week. With 65 fewer patients, 498 hospitalizations for covid reasons are underway in Brittany, including 59 in intensive care (-1 in one week).
The number of deaths recorded this week is once again very high, since 55 patients have died in the past seven days. 2,372 patients have died from covid since the start of the epidemic, including 425 since the start of 2022.
In Côtes-d’Armor, 4,832 new positive cases were recorded by the ARS this week. These are 240 more than last week, when the number of contaminations had been falling for weeks.
The incidence rate of 748.6 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, above the regional average, fell by 43.9 points in seven days, while it lost more than 300 last Friday. At 29.2%, the positivity rate is almost stable.
ARS Bretagne identified 8,225 new positive cases in one week in Finistère, a small drop of 9% in seven days.
Lagging behind other departments, Finistère’s incidence rate was still above 1,000 last week. With a fall of 124 points, it is now 886.5 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. The positivity rate remains above 30%, at 31.7%.
Once again, Morbihan is showing an encouraging trend in its indicators this week. With an incidence rate which continues to fall, since it loses 107.2 points in seven days, stands at 592.7, and is thus approaching the national average.
4,732 new cases have been identified in the department this week, and the test positivity rate there is currently 28.2%, a drop of two points, the sharpest in the region.
As in Côtes-d’Armor, the fall in the incidence rate is slowing down sharply this week in Ille-et-Vilaine, since it has decreased by only 56 points and is now 643.4. Last Friday, the drop observed in one week was 358 points.
7,440 contaminations have been recorded in the department in the past seven days, and the positivity rate is still the lowest in the region, with 26.9% of positive tests.
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