Illustration in the emergency room in Lyon.

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Elisa Frisullo / 20 Minutes

The recent transfers of patients carried out by medical planes to other departments or other large regions have relieved the resuscitation services in Lyon.

But hospital pressure remains very strong at the Hospices Civils de Lyon, where the main indicators for monitoring Covid-19 have further increased over the past week.

According to the latest report presented on Tuesday by the CHU de Lyon, "783 patients with coronavirus are now hospitalized in one of the HCL establishments (all services combined), including 152 in intensive care" Data higher than during the peak of the first wave, observed on April 6 in the metropolis.

Calls to the Samu and emergency visits down

In intensive care, where capacities now reach 272 beds (against 139 in normal times), the overall occupancy rate is 87%, with a high presence of Covid patients (63% of people admitted).

Still high, the occupation of the sheave has decreased a little in recent days thanks to the transfer of 46 patients to other departments of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes and other French regions a little less severely affected by the epidemic, recall the Civil Hospices of Lyon.

Positive points for hospitals, the number of calls to emergency medical services and emergency visits linked to the coronavirus has decreased over the last week and represents less than a quarter of the overall activity of these services.

Likewise, the incidence rate of the disease has been falling for the past two weeks in the territory, according to data from Public Health France, probably due to the reduced movement of the population linked to the curfew introduced on October 17. .

The beginnings, no doubt, of the plateau effect currently observed on contaminations and hospitalizations in certain regions of France, but not yet in Auvergne Rhône-Alpes.

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