- In Hérault, vacationers have been contaminated with Covid-19 and overload the hospital in Sète, according to a viral post.
- The CHU du Bassin de Thau refuted this information on Facebook and Twitter.
- If there is no more Covid-19 patient in the establishment since mid-June, clusters have, however, appeared well in other regions in recent days.
Information is widely relayed on social networks. Vacationers staying in particular at Cap d'Agde (Hérault), positive for Covid-19, have been admitted to the hospital in Sète. To support this claim, a link leads to an article published by a site called "Hérault Actualités" on June 29, and shared more than 16,000 times. According to this site, the establishment would be "in tension to provide conventional care". And to add: “It seems that most [tourists] have come to spend the holidays in the region. "
"Holidaymakers will pass it on to us and there will be a second wave," worries a Facebook user in a comment, while others regret the absence of the wearing of a mask in an amusement park.
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Joined by 20 Minutes , the Thau basin CHU, which groups together the hospitals around the basin, including Saint-Clair de Sète hospital, confirms that this is false information. He also denied it on his Twitter account and on his Facebook page. The establishment emphasizes, in a post published on June 29, that there has been "no positive test since May 22 at hospitals in the Thau basin and no more Covid-19 patients hospitalized since mid-June".
The CHU specifies that tests are systematically carried out on all patients admitted to hospital. And adds that patients with symptoms suggestive of Covid-19 are considered "suspicious and isolated until reception of the test result and possibly a chest scanner".
"The virus is still circulating"
The establishment warns: “The virus is still circulating and it is absolutely necessary to respect distancing, hand washing and wearing a mask. In its latest report, Thursday June 30, the regional health agency Occitanie indicates that 14 cases are detected on average per day in the region. Seventy-three hospitalizations are in progress in the region, including ten in Hérault.
Vigilance is also required in France. Although the number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care continues to decrease, with 602 patients on June 30, the circulation of the virus in Guyana is "worrying", emphasizes the Directorate General of Health (DGS). The health system is out of breath. After a first medical evacuation of two patients to Guadeloupe, "other operations of the same type are being planned," added the DGS in a press release.
In mainland France, four regions (Ile-de-France, Grand-Est, Hauts-de-France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) account for 74% of patients hospitalized in intensive care. The appearance of clusters and the effective reproduction rate (R0) of the virus are particularly monitored. Normandy remains the only metropolitan region where this R0 has significantly exceeded 1, according to Public Health France.
As a reminder, the R0 corresponds to the average number of people that a sick person will contaminate: when it is greater than 1, it is the vigilance threshold; beyond 1.5, this is the alert threshold. After climbing to 1.72 in mid-June, it returned to below the alert threshold, but remained above the vigilance threshold (1.37).
Of the ten clusters identified or under investigation in Normandy, eight are in Seine-Maritime. The department is particularly affected with 96 cases detected during the week from June 20 to 26. ARS Normandie specifies that "the appearance of these clusters reflects a real, but controlled viral circulation".
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