Neither the Reims University Hospital nor the polyclinic from Reims Bezannes have not yet deprogrammed of interventions according to the Regional Health Agency (ARS) but the proximity to Aube and Aisne and the deterioration of indicators “worry”. The occupancy rate of intensive care beds in Troyes hospitals is 100%, and the Marne should be united.
In other words, the hospitals of Reims should “organize themselves in the next 15 days” to accommodate possible transfers of patients from Aube specifies Thierry Alibert, delegate of the ARS in the Marne, during a point this Wednesday, March 17. Thierry Alibert who speaks of a “wave which will be just as formidable within 2 to 3 weeks”.
Indicators that are deteriorating, in particular in Greater Reims
In the Marne where the hospital of Châlons-en-Champagne is the most in tension according to the ARS for intensive care and intensive care services. But it’s good in the agglomeration of Reims that the indicators of the epidemic are deteriorating the fastest. With an incidence rate according to the latest figures of 252 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants and a test positivity rate of 7.5% in Greater Reims.
No local containment in sight in the Marne
The prefect of the Marne announces this Wednesday, March 17 that he has taken a decree to generalize the obligation to wear a mask outside in four municipalities of the Greater Reims agglomeration: Reims, Tinqueux, Bétheny and Cormontreuil, and also to ban fairs and flea markets for the next three weeks. The ARS specifies that 70% of the contaminations in the Marne come from the English variant, but for the moment the department is not affected by a possible confinement estimates the prefect of Marne.
3 to 4 class closings per day in the Marne
Another indicator highlighted this Wednesday by the ARS and the prefect of the Marne to show the acceleration of the epidemic: the number of closed classes in schools, by decree, because of cases of Covid-19. At a rate of 3 to 4 per day in the Marne since Thursday March 11.
Last notable example to date, the closing of a class at the Lycée Clémenceau in Reims and the placement in solitary confinement of 90 final year students. A preventive measure attempting to “break the chains of contamination”. In question: a sibling link with a student from another establishment contaminated by a variant.
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