- After the stabilization of new patients admitted to hospital and in intensive care, the figures decrease more frankly in Auvergne Rhône-Alpes, signs that the epidemic is decreasing.
- The returns to home are consequently more numerous.
The signs of improvement are confirmed day after day. After difficult weeks in Auvergne Rhône-Alpes, one of the most affected by coronavirus after Grand-Est and Ile de France, the decline in the epidemic is confirmed, according to the latest daily report from the Regional Agency of health (ARS) and the weekly bulletin of Public Health.
“We are starting to observe a drop in the number of people currently hospitalized in the region, whereas there was a plateau around 3,000 hospitalizations since April 4. The number of new daily deaths remains fluctuating. The number of 9 new admissions to intensive care has never been so low, "said ARS on Thursday evening.
In detail, hospitalizations, which remained very high in the region for several weeks, rose from 2,970 on Thursday April 16 to 2,760 this Thursday, with decreases observed every day in services. In intensive care, same downward trend, with 483 patients admitted to intensive care or intensive care yesterday against nearly 630 a week ago. Deaths from Covid-19 are now brought to 1,167, 240 more than seven days ago. Not all departments suffered in the same way. The Rhône and Loire remain the areas that have been most severely affected by the virus, with 444 and 166 deaths currently deplored.
Coronavirus in Lyon: "A very significant experience", a month that staff and residents of an Ehpad live confined together https://t.co/buIWnbQYsf via @ 20minutesLyon pic.twitter.com/YaVvN0GMcC
- 20 Minutes Lyon (@ 20minuteslyon) April 22, 2020The situation is slowly improving in Ehpad
In medico-social establishments and nursing homes, the drop in new reports of cases of coronavirus is confirmed, even if the human toll remains heavy, according to Public Health. Since March 1, 6,793 cases of Covid-19 have been recorded among residents, according to the health authority. As of April 22, 922 residents have died in institutions and 290 have died in hospital.
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As a direct consequence of the improvement in the health crisis, home returns have increased significantly over the past week. According to the latest assessment made Thursday evening by the ARS, 4,391 patients were discharged from the hospital in Auvergne Rhône-Alpes, 930 more people than on April 16.
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