The Grand Est, heavily impacted last spring, is once again one of the regions most affected by the second wave of Covid-19.
Five of its departments have largely exceeded the maximum alert threshold set at 250 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants: 337 new cases for the Ardennes, 311 for Meurthe-et-Moselle, 291.8 for the Meuse, 292.3 for the Vosges. The Moselle is very close to this threshold with 242.5 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants, according to data from Public Health France stopped on December 27.
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The deterioration of the health situation therefore continues in the region. While a health defense council is being held this Tuesday morning, Mathieu Klein, mayor of Nancy and president of the metropolis of Greater Nancy, calls for a “quick decision”, that is to say “before the New Year”, to reverse the contaminations curve. “I would be the first happy if alternative solutions to containment, with the same results, existed but no other measure has allowed to break the evolution of the epidemic”, explained the elected official Monday.
Recalling the consequences of the health situation on the Regional University Hospital Center (CHRU): 110 Covid-19 patients treated two weeks ago, 140 on December 22, 166 on Monday …
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” A time bomb “
For the Pr Christian Rabaud, infectious disease specialist and president of the medical commission for the establishment of the CHRU, a tightening of health rules, “whatever the name, is necessary. In view of the evolution of the epidemic situation, a decision must be taken, and now. There is no point in waiting “Because the New Year risks being, he fears,” a time bomb “for a hospital system” in very strong tension “. According to the Regional Health Agency, the Covid-19 activity of health establishments in the Grand Est region is today “similar” to that recorded the week preceding the start of the second confinement.
In the Grand Est, the mayor of Reims Arnaud Robinet has also stepped up to the plate on Christmas Eve, finding it necessary to reconfine. For his part, the president of the Grand Est region Jean Rottner said he was “not far from sharing this opinion” on the waves of Europe 1 Saturday morning : “Perhaps it will be necessary to go through intermediate stages”, he added however.
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