An intensive care unit in a hospital in Wuhan, center of the coronavirus epidemic, on February 6, 2020. - Chinatopix via AP

  • According to the ARS count released Wednesday at 5 p.m., 1,082 people are officially infected in the region. It's 182 more than the day before.
  • The number of hospitalized patients, who present with a severe form of the virus, is also increasing sharply: 463, the major part (133) residing in Hérault.
  • Forty-five people died from the virus in a health facility. It's five more than the day before. A third of these deaths occurred in Aude.

The number of confirmed cases of patients suffering from coronavirus in Occitania follows an exponential curve. The threshold of a thousand cases was largely exceeded this Wednesday. According to the ARS count, arrested Wednesday at 5 p.m., 1,082 people are officially infected in the region. It's 182 more than the day before.

The establishment of 141 consultation centers dedicated to Covid-19 on the territory is not unrelated. They are only accessible after regulation by a doctor. They are therefore not coronavirus screening centers. Patients are invited to call their doctor or, failing that, center 15, to be referred to the nearest center.

Second wave imminent

This figure confirms the imminence of the second wave expected by the various health establishments, and in particular the CHUs of Toulouse and Montpellier. The latter went to level 2 of his white plan to cope with the influx of patients without being overwhelmed.

The number of hospitalized patients, who present with a severe form of the virus, is also increasing sharply: 463, the major part (133) residing in Hérault. A total of 145 people are placed in intensive care, a figure which also continues to increase day by day.

A third of deaths in Aude

Forty-five people died from the virus in a health facility. It's five more than the day before. A third of the deaths occurred in Aude (fifteen). L'Hérault, where twelve people, including those who died, also paid a heavy price for this pandemic.

Conversely, 195 people, whose condition no longer justified hospitalization, have returned to their homes since the start of the epidemic. This measure benefited 34 people this Wednesday.

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