Coronavirus illustration in Lille.

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M.Libert / 20 Minutes

  • In the North and in the Lille metropolitan area, the number of coronavirus contaminations has increased sharply.

  • In the metropolis of Lille alone, the incidence rate is twice as high as the national average.

  • To anticipate an influx of Covid patients in the coming days, the ARS summons hospitals to free up around 100 intensive care beds.

The virus is gaining ground.

This Wednesday, the Hauts-de-France Regional Health Agency (ARS) called on hospitals in the region to anticipate as quickly as possible an influx of Covid-19 patients expected in the coming days.

In particular, they are asked to increase the bed capacity of the intensive care units.

Nothing helps, the incidence rate of people infected with the coronavirus continues to increase in Hauts-de-France.

If it climbs very clearly in all the departments of the region, it is however the North which remains the most affected with an incidence rate which went from 315 to 483 in seven days.

And in the North, it is the European metropolis of Lille (MEL) which explodes the counters with an incidence rate of 675 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, almost double the national average.

One hundred resuscitation beds to be released within 48 hours

In addition to the increase in the number of cases, the ARS highlights the skyrocketing serious forms of Covid-19.

Between mid-September and October 19, we went from 41 people hospitalized in intensive care to 228 at the regional level.

The Agency also insists on the fact that the current dynamic of a rapid increase in the number of infected people will also quickly translate into an increase in patients requiring intensive care.

Visit of @vallet_benoit to the private hospital Le Bois @RamsaySante in Lille



🏥Public and private establishments participate in the care of Covid patients and are preparing for new hospitalizations


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- ARS Hauts-de-France (@ARS_HDF) October 21, 2020

The ARS wishes that within 48 hours, nearly a hundred additional beds be released in the intensive care units of the various hospitals in Hauts-de-France.

This requires facilities to deprogram non-essential interventions immediately and reprogram them later.

“This measure aims to anticipate the influx of Covid-19 patients in the coming days,” warns the Regional Health Agency.

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