In the space of a few days, health indicators have turned red in New Aquitaine and especially in Gironde and in the Bordeaux agglomeration.
Young people aged 15-30 are the most affected by the circulation of the virus, and the Bordeaux University Hospital has been forced to reactivate its crisis unit.
"All signals are red."
In a few days, the health situation deteriorated in Gironde and in the Bordeaux conurbation.
The 15-30 year olds are the most affected by this increase in circulation of the coronavirus which leaves the shadow of a second epidemic wave over France.
While there are now locally 470 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in this age group, the Bordeaux University Hospital has been forced to reactivate its crisis unit, as explained at the microphone of Europe 1 its director, Yann Bubien.
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A "worrying" situation
"The number of calls to the Samu, emergency room entrances, the number of patients hospitalized for Covid, including resuscitations which have doubled in one week, all the signals are red."
A situation that the specialist qualifies as "worrying".
"We must not have too large a peak, we need a sufficiently reasonable wave to treat these patients with serenity", adds Didier Gruson, head of the intensive care unit, where 21 people are currently being treated for a serious infection. to coronavirus.
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A mixing of populations and many gatherings
As to why this department, until then relatively spared by the epidemic, has come to be classified as high vulnerability by the authorities, the infectious disease specialist Denis Malvy points to the microphone of Europe 1 "of the mixing of populations and returns holidays".
"There have been many gatherings, family, friendly, which have helped to restart this circulation on an extremely high level."
To prevent the situation from worsening, only one solution according to this expert: "the intensification of barrier gestures and the implementation of certain restrictions on social life", such as limiting gatherings.
React before the temperature drops
Measures that it is all the more urgent to put in place as autumn approaches.
"There is nothing to prevent the Covid-19 from also being a seasonal virus, that is to say that its circulation is increased thanks to the drops in temperature. We must prepare for this second wave, which is in my opinion highly probable. "