This is what the mayor of Trélazé Marc Goua fears in view of the deterioration of the local health situation.
In ten days, the number of hospitalizations linked to covid-19 infections has doubled in Maine-et-Loire: from 53 patients identified on October 9, the curve accelerated and reached 106 on Tuesday. These two figures alone testify to the speed at which the virus is now spreading in the territory, after the summer respite. They led the Regional Health Agency to sound the alarm once again and to affirm that at this stage “ every day counts ” and ” we can be actors in the prevention and fight against COVID ».
Comparisons are obviously necessary with the situation of last spring, the severity of which peaked in April, during the general confinement of the population: the peak was reached on the 14th with a total of 232 people treated in hospitals. We are still quite far from it, even if the gap between these two periods is starting to narrow, more and more quickly.
Another worrying sign: the number of patients admitted to intensive care (19) yesterday returned to its level of May 7, the result of a sudden deterioration that was felt from October 13 (with a total of nine additional entries in this service reserved for the most serious cases). As a reminder, at the height of the crisis, the CHUs of Maine-et-Loire counted up to 55 patients in intensive care (April 4).
In its latest bulletin, the ARS reports four deaths from complications caused by the new coronavirus since Friday, October 16, bringing the number of victims of the epidemic to 161 in seven months.
A sharply rising incidence rate
These figures are of course scrutinized closely and daily by health authorities and public authorities: they are combined with the incidence rate which makes it possible to assess the rate of spread of the Covid within the population. However, it began a worrying rebound on October 6: from 62.9 positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants, the index rose to 183 at the start of the week. However, Angers and its territory remains, for the moment, in a simple alert zone which preserves it until further notice from a curfew comparable to that which has been decreed in Paris, Lille, Rouen or even Toulouse. where the incidence rate exceeds 300.
A status quo which, according to Marc Goua, could not last and evolve negatively with the introduction of much more drastic measures: in the preamble to a meeting of the City Council, the mayor of Trélazé expressed his fear that night confinement would not be established in the ” within the next few days »
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