INFOGRAPHICS – Incidence rate, evolution of the number of cases … several departments are seeing their epidemic indicators start to rise again, while the government is preparing to take new measures on Thursday.
The health situation is deteriorating in France, while the threat of the British variant of Covid-19, which now represents around 1% of positive tests, hangs over the territory. “There will likely be a number of more stringent measures to be taken”, Declared Wednesday the President of the Scientific Council, Jean-François Delfraissy. Prime Minister Jean Castex, accompanied by five ministers, will take stock of the health situation and announce new measures to fight the epidemic on Thursday. Discover, in four maps, the current state of the health situation in France, department by department.
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At present, 25 departments are already under a 6 p.m. curfew measure: theAllier, the Alpes de Haute Provence, the Alpes-Maritimes, the Ardennes, the Bas-Rhin, the Bouches-du-Rhône, the Cher, the Côte-d’Or, the Doubs, the Drôme, the High mountains, the Haute-Marne, the Haut-Rhin, the Haute-Saone, the Jura, the Marne, the Meurthe-et-Moselle, the Meuse, the Moselle, the Nièvre, the Saone-et-Loire, the Where, the Vaucluse, the Vosges.
Other departments could be subject to curfew as of Thursday. Twenty of them have an incidence rate – the number of cases over seven days per 100,000 inhabitants – greater than 250, a threshold set by the executive before the second confinement for the transition to “maximum alert».
Here they are, in descending order: Alpes-Maritimes (460), the Jura (363), the Territory of Belfort (341), the Doubs (334), the Haute-Marne (331), the Haute-Saone (309), High mountains (296), the Guyana (293), the Meuse (288), the Where (286), the Cher (279), Ardennes (275), Bouches-du-Rhône (272), the Meurthe-et-Moselle (271), the Nièvre (265), the Vaucluse (265), the Saone-et-Loire (264), the Côte d’Or (260), the Drôme (259), l’Allier (257).
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The occupancy rate of intensive care beds is also of concern in many departments. In 44 of them, this rate exceeds 60%.
Here they are, in descending order: Vosges (250%), High mountains (138%), the Jura (138%), the Haute-Marne (138%), the Lozere (133%), Hautes-Pyrenees (125%), the Drôme (121%), the Doubs (120%), the Saone-et-Loire (115%), the Haute-Corse (113%), Mayenne (113%), Ardennes (108%), Alpes de Haute Provence (100%), l’Your (100%), the Vaucluse (100%), l’Yonne (94%), the Tarn (92%), the Haute-Savoie (91%), the Seine et Marne (90%), the Loiret (89%), l’Ardeche (88%), the Meuse (88%), the Territory of Belfort (88%), Alpes-Maritimes (85%), l’Dawn (83%), the Cher (83%), l’Eure-et-Loir (80%), l’Allier (79%), the Pas-de-Calais (78%), the Savoie (78%), the Haut-Rhin (76%), the Loir-et-Cher (75%), l’Oise (75%), l’Ain (73%), the Côte-d’Or (72%), the Meurthe-et-Moselle (71%), l’Aisne (68%), the Moselle (68%), the Rhône (67%), l’Essonne (65%), l’Aude (63%), Two Sevres (63%), Bouches-du-Rhône (62%) and the Seine-Saint-Denis (62%).
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