Coronavirus screening center at the Palais des Sports in Gerland. @OrianeMollaret
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The number of new cases of covid-19 remains high in the region. But don’t explode. Ardèche, Ain, Drôme and Rhône are the four departments in the region where the virus continues to circulate the most. The point this Thursday.
The number of new cases of covid-19 remains high in the region. But don’t explode. The circulation of the virus at an instant t in a territory is measured by the incidence rate. It is a key indicator. The incidence rate determines the number of positive cases over the last 7 days per 100,000 inhabitants. On a slippery week. It is a very good way to measure the degree of circulation of the virus at a time t in a territory.
Slight increase in the Rhône
In detail, according to the latest data available to us, with stabilized data ending on Sunday, February 7, the incidence rate is 211 on average in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region (stable in 2 days). Public Health France figures therefore take into account the period from Monday 1 February to Sunday 7 February. The incidence rate is 366 in PACA (+7 in 2 days), the region where the virus circulates most currently, 192 in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (-4 in 2 days) and 207 on average in France (stable in 2 days). If the east of France was much more affected at the beginning of January, the gap between the east and the west is narrowing. The west is now more and more affected. The average in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is more or less the same as the French average now.
Ardèche and Ain are the two departments of the region most affected. According to the latest data stabilized on February 7, the incidence rates are as follows in the region:
- Ardèche: 259 (-9 in 2 days)
- Ain: 242 (-6 in 2 days)
- Drôme: 238 (+8 in 2 days)
- Rhône: 234 (+5 in 2 days)
- Loire: 217 (-2 in 2 days)
- Haute-Savoie: 201 (+1 in 2 days)
- Isère: 197 (-1 in 2 days)
- Haute-Loire: 195 (+9 in 2 days)
- Puy-de-Dôme: 182 (-2 in 2 days)
- Cantal: 158 (-18 in 2 days)
- Combine: 170 (-2 in 2 days)
- Savoie: 143 (+3 in 2 days)
Government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday that “there is a way to avoid re-containment“. “Unfortunately, it is too early to celebrate “, “we must continue to hold together“, he added. “About fifty departments“record a decrease in the number of new cases, it is stable in about thirty and the number of new cases is on the rise in”a little over twenty“of departments,” continued the spokesperson for the government.
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