ARS measurements confirm the expected trend: variants of the coronavirus, and in particular the British strain, are gaining ground. Zoom on the situation in the Grand Est.
Barely 1% at the start of January, probably 15% four weeks later. Announced as the future majority strain of the virus in France, the English variant of Covid-19 is spreading.
In the Grand Est, its presence was estimated at 1.1% of cases after tests conducted on January 7 and 8. In a second survey carried out on January 27 “on a sample of positive samples from five medical biology laboratories in the Grand Est region”, the ARS noted an increase. The British variant is believed to represent 14.8% of positive cases.
“These suspicions are now being genotyped for confirmation” writes the ARS Grand Est. The region is now the third most affected in France by the presence of this variant, behind Occitanie (20.2%) and Île-de-France (19.5%).
More globally, 23.7% of new infections examined during this survey corresponded to one of the three variants British, South African or Brazilian.
According to the ARS, after tests carried out on foci of infection on February 5, and even if the data represent only a “photography” from that day, the trend indicates “an intensification of their circulation (the variants, note) in the Grand Est region especially in areas where an increase in the incidence of the number of new infections has been observed for several days, such as Moselle (and especially Metz Metropolis), the Strasbourg Eurometropolis and dawn“.
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