“The health situation remains very difficult“in Côte-d’Or estimates, this Friday, the prefect Fabien Sudry. The hospitals of the department are still under tension: 120% of our hospital capacities are occupied by patients suffering from the coronavirus. The situation is also deteriorating for the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region with 1,751 patients hospitalized because of COVID, it is 370 more than during the first wave, explains the director of the Regional Health Agency, Pierre Pribile.
To the extent that 159 people from the region had to be transferred in other hospitals, including four in Nancy. Four other people are due to be transferred to Strasbourg on Friday. The second wave is “violent “ in our region which is the second most affected in France after Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, according to Pierre Pribile. However, authorities say they have seen a decline in the epidemic since last week
An insufficient decline in the epidemic
Despite the evolution of the epidemic, Fabien Sudry believes that there is a slight decline in the epidemic in Côte d’Or. “It remains fragile and this is only the beginning, but it is an encouraging sign: the incidence rate is down slightly“Since last week, estimates the prefect. It is 575 cases per 100,000 people on November 9, against 580 cases last week.
And to monitor the confinement, the prefect of Côte-d’Or asked for more checks. There are 1582 checks including 65 verbalizations in our department. “This weak result shows that our fellow citizens respect the restrictions.“, Judge Fabien Sudry.
Educational continuity plans in high schools
Nathalie Albert-Moretti, the rector of the Academy of Dijon, for her part, specified that _ “_38 high schools transmitted a project for educational continuity “. There are 15 in Côte-d’Or. Plans which should allow these establishments to brew fewer students on a daily basis. “Either with alternations by half-group, or half-week or by level“, continues the rector who indicates that she asked six establishments to work again on their projects.
Nathalie Albert Moretti has targeted two objectives for the coming weeks: ensure the educational continuity of all classes and protect students from the virus. She speaks “absolute imperatives“. The Dijon academy has 1138 students in eviction, that is to say who are contact cases.
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