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In the Pays de la Loire and more particularly in Loire Atlantique, ” the fifth wave [de l’épidémie de Covid-19] is there, “warned Nicolas Durand, deputy director of the Regional Health Agency, Thursday, November 18, 2021.
According to the health agency, the incidence rate has grown 70% over the last seven days regionally. A level considered particularly worrying in three departments, Vendée, Maine-et-Loire and Loire-Atlantique, the latter showing 152 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants over a week to November 16 and even 20 more points (177) after “correction” linked to the impact of public holidays.
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Increase in positive cases
In Loire-Atlantique, where wearing a mask has become mandatory again in places subject to the health pass since Monday, November 8, the figures are panicking everywhere at the inter-municipal level according to the latest data communicated by the ARS :
- Nantes Métropole: 157 positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants;
- Saint-Nazaire: 179;
- Guérande : 164 ;
- Clisson : 140 ;
- Pornic : 151 ;
- Redon : 153 ;
- Châteaubriant: 162;
- Grand-Lieu: 120;
- Ancenis: 180;
- etc.
The incidence rate per 100,000 inhabitants over one week in your municipality:
At the municipal level, coronavirus contaminations are soaring in about fifteen towns. In Corsept, Bouguenais, Montoir, La Roche-Blanche, Vallet and Le Pallet for example, the incidence rate has already exceeded the bar of 250 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants. In four municipalities, this indicator even crossed 500 new cases: Saint-Gildas-des-Bois, Riaillé, Sudan and Mouais.
The progression of the epidemic also seems very marked in the north of the department. where sources of contamination have appeared in recent weeks. Thus, the incidence rate is greater than 1,000 new cases in Villepot and Carbay.
Will the mask be back soon everywhere outside?
The prefect Didier Martin indicated that the extension of the wearing of the mask everywhere outside was now the next step in the event of a worsening of the health situation.
Today, the mask is only required in places of high concentration.
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18 people in critical care
As in previous waves, there are always a shift (two weeks) between contaminations and hospital admissions. To date, 72 people are hospitalized in Loire-Atlantique including 18 in critical care. Very largely unvaccinated patients.
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