A caregiver at the Strasbourg civil hospital (illustration).

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Jean-Francois Badias / AP / SIPA

  • The Grand-Est region, in particular Alsace, is no longer separate on the map of France.

    The Covid-19 affects more and more people in the greater region.

  • The Strasbourg Eurometropolis is the agglomeration with the highest incidence rate in the Grand-Est region.

    Just over 700 people out of 100,000 inhabitants are positive for Covid-19.

  • The resuscitation services of hospitals are currently not saturated.

The time when Alsace seemed spared by the second wave of Covid-19 seems far away.

Already largely affected last spring, the region is again, although others are even more so.

One figure particularly illustrates this: the incidence rate.

The number of people positive for Covid-19 out of 100,000 inhabitants has doubled in the Bas-Rhin in the past two weeks.

There were around 300 on October 19, they are now close to 600 (588).

The situation is even more serious in the Eurometropolis of Strasbourg with an incidence rate of 706 per 100,000 inhabitants.

It is quite simply the most affected agglomeration in the Grand-Est, far ahead of Metz (515) or Mulhouse (408).

Hospitals are not saturated

Haut-Rhin, on the other hand, is below the French average (408 against 464) and far from the departments where the situation seems more serious, as in Savoie (1,156), in the Loire (1,134) or in Haute-Loire ( 1.131).

It is also in this sense that ten patients from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region were transferred Thursday to two hospitals in the Grand-Est, in Strasbourg and Nancy.

These establishments are not currently saturated.

According to the latest figures from the Grand-Est Regional Health Agency (ARS), there were 218 people in intensive care due to Covid-19, including 86 in Alsace.

The greater region can accommodate up to 471. But that doesn't mean the margin is huge.

For the day of Thursday, November 5 alone, 34 new admissions had taken place in intensive care.

In Strasbourg university hospitals, there were five beds available on Friday morning.

"We have a slight delay of about fifteen days compared to the rest of France, which has allowed us to reorganize," said Dr Nicolas Lefebvre, from the infectious diseases department at the New Civil Hospital, in a statement.

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