in Pays de la Loire, the pandemic is still on the decline

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“We have Sarthe which started much higher than the other departments, remarks Pierre Blaise, doctor at ARS Pays de la Loire, therefore, despite a significant drop, it remains at a higher incidence rate than the 4 other departments “.

Even if the figures are encouraging in Pays de la Loire, “However, we remain at a fairly high incidence rate because I remind you that the first limit of the alert threshold is 50 positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants so we can see that we are not there yet”.

The drop in the positivity rate over the last 7 days per 100 tests is also encouraging: 4.6 according to data from May 17, while this rate rose to 9.3 on April 23.

In our region, 114 patients are currently in intensive care.

As of Monday 16, there were 1.2 million people vaccinated for the first time in Pays de la Loire, 20.7 million people in France. More than 40% of those over 18 received a first dose of vaccine in the region. Two thirds of Ligériens over 75 years old are now vaccinated.

Return to normal life

It is this Wednesday, May 19 that the “real” life resumes its course.

A little cream on the terrace, a film screening, a visit to the museum? After several months of closure, France is regaining some of its leisure and a little freedom, against a backdrop of the decline of the epidemic.

Cafes with a terrace can reopen, they are 40% in this case.

Film buffs will be spoiled for choice by finding their way back to dark rooms, open to 35% of their capacity and a maximum of 800 people per room.

So-called non-essential businesses will also be able to reopen with a limit of one customer for 8m².

The curfew is also pushed back to 9 p.m.

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