State of the Moselle prefecture on the Covid-19 epidemic and progress report on the vaccination plan and reinforcement of tests deployed for a week in the department. And results of the analyzes of wastewater carried out by the battalion of marine firefighters in Marseille and the SDIS teams in Moselle.
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Younger patients in Moselle hospitals than elsewhere in France
Lamia Himer, regional delegate of ARS Grand Est, announces that the average age of patients in intensive care in Moselle is 55 years old. That is 10 years below the national average age which is 65 years.
“This is a trend that we are indeed observing: a proportion of younger patients likely to arrive in intensive care in Moselle. », Without being able to explain it to this day.
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Opening of five new vaccination centers
30,000 additional vaccines (Pfizer) are being delivered for Moselle. The goal is still to massively vaccinate caregivers, staff working with patients and people with co-morbid factors over 75 years of age.
“For this we rely on two levers”, explains the sub-prefect: “Our 10 vaccination centers open in Moselle and dedicated operations on sites and / or with particular audiences.”
“But that is not enough”, the sub-prefect announces the opening of five new vaccination centers. Of the five new vaccination centers which “are going” to open, it should be noted that two have already opened, one at the Legouest hospital in Metz, the second at the Belle-Isle hospital in Metz.
A third will open this Saturday, February 20 in Freyming-Merlebach and two others will open next week, in Montigny-lès-Metz and Thionville.
To date, more than 40,000 people in Moselle have received a first injection and over 11,000 a second injection.
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The waters of 29 nursing homes in Lorraine tested
Wastewater from 29 nursing homes on the Nancy – Thionville axis was also tested. Only 1 Ehpad can be declared positive. Its director, warned, had all residents tested. To date all the tests have come back negative
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30,000 curfew compliance checks
30,000 checks have been carried out since January 2, ie since the curfew was put in place at 6 p.m., details the sub-prefect Olivier Delcayrou. Out of these 30,000 checks, 3,268 offenses were committed.
A tendency to stagnate
Regarding the analysis of wastewater, for which the firefighters were called upon: 19 large wastewater treatment plants in Moselle were the subject of two samples, Monday and Thursday.
According to these analyzes, the tendency seems to be stagnation between the two days of sampling. There is no exponential evolution one way or the other. The presence of many variants, South African and British, always above the national average, was detected.
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