The indicators related to Covid-19 are dropping, in France the eighth wave is deflating day by day. Let’s take stock of the situation in Occitania, department by department.
The eighth wave of Covid-19 is deflating, the incidence rate in France had dropped by 44% on November 1, 2022 compared to the previous week according to data from Public Health France. The positivity rate also dropped 4.3%, although the number of new cases still increased by 14.2% in seven days to reach 29,000 confirmed cases per day.
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The indicators are also falling in Occitania. Here are the departments where the virus had subsided more on November 1 than a month earlier, October 4:
- Hérault: 137 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 300 on 4 October)
- Aude: 159 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 372 on 4 October)
- Upper Garonne: 163 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 433 on 4 October)
- Eastern Pyrenees: 174 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 318 on 4 October)
- Lozère: 180 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 328 on 4 October)
- Tarn-et-Garonne: 182 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 525 on 4 October)
- Gard: 183 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 348 on 4 October)
- Upper Pyrenees: 189 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 389 on 4 October)
- Tarn: 190 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 389 on 4 October)
- Lot: 192 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 450 on 4 October)
- Gers: 194 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 413 on 4 October)
- Aveyron: 255 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 510 on 4 October)
- Ariège: 260 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 445 on 4 October)
Despite the decline, Aveyron continues to be one of the departments in Occitania where the virus circulates most actively, as in early October, along with Ariège.
On the other hand, the situation has significantly improved in the Hérault, where the incidence rate was halved in one month, or in the Tarn-et-Garonne where the incidence rate was almost divided by three. However, caution is required knowing that the warning threshold is set to 50.
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The new vaccination campaign was shortly followed
In its report published on November 4, Public Health France recalls that the Omicron variant and its BA.5 sub-lineage remain ubiquitous in the country (92% of interpretable sequences). Analyzes reveal an increase in the BQ.1.1 sub-lineage, also dubbed the Centaur variant, but its rate of diffusion tends to stabilize.
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The new vaccination campaign aims precisely to protect the most vulnerable against these variants. “As of October 31, only 39.2% of people aged 60 to 79 and 52.0% of people aged 80 and over among eligible people (according to the time elapsed since the last injection ) had received a second recall “, details Public Health France. “In the context of a still very active circulation of Covid-19 and with the approach of the winter period, vaccination must be strengthened, in particular by a booster with a bivalent vaccine (against the initial strain and the Omicron variant) in eligible primary vaccines (from 3 months or 6 months after the last injection according to the recommendations in force).
