Illustrative photo of a person being tested for coronavirus in Nice.

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  • The incidence rate remains high in the metropolis with 437 positive coronavirus cases per 100,000 inhabitants this Saturday.

  • Maralpine patients have been transferred to hospitals in Bouches-du-Rhône.

  • The circulation of the virus in the metropolis' wastewater continues to climb.

The more time passes, the less the situation seems to calm down.

While before the summer, the department was one of the least affected in France by the Covid-19, it is now breaking records with a second wave stronger than the first by 135%.

20

Minutes

takes stock of the current situation in the Alpes-Maritimes.

Nice still at the top of the ranking for the incidence rate

Since December 18, the Nice metropolis has remained in first place among metropolises with the highest incidence rate.

On Saturday, it reached 437 positive cases of Covid-19 per 100,000 inhabitants, according to Public Health France.

A slight drop from last week when it climbed to 500.

The three cities with the highest incidence rate are in the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur region (Nice, Marseille and Toulon).

In France, the average rate is at 202. This Saturday, more than 76,000 people had been vaccinated in the region according to infographics of covid-tracker, which is based on figures from the Ministry of Health.

The positivity rate is 8.7%, that is to say, the proportion of positive tests in all tests in the department against 6.6% in France.

Hospitalizations on the rise, transfers in progress

Despite an incidence rate that is stabilizing, hospitalizations are on the rise in the department.

Thursday, two maralpine patients treated in intensive care were transferred to hospitals in Marseille to avoid saturation.

According to Public Health France, Friday, 90% of resuscitation beds were occupied by patients.

The Alpes-Maritimes have 339 conventional hospitalizations, according to the daily report of the Regional Health Agency.

That's twenty-three more since the last report.

Since the start of the epidemic, 755 people have died in the hospitals of the department, eleven more since the last publications of the ARS Paca.

Circulation of the virus in wastewater, a constantly growing number

From the stools of 490,000 inhabitants in the seventeen municipalities of the metropolis, the marine firefighters of Marseille with the Nice health security agency collect the data necessary to observe the circulation of the virus, twice a week.

According to the latest analyzes, published Thursday, several sectors of the town had a percentage of the contaminated population above the alert threshold (4%).

For three weeks, the numbers have continued to increase.

In the port sector, on January 12, 8% of the population was infected.

This week, it is at Les Moulins that the figures have changed and have been multiplied by five in two weeks.

According to Romain Gitenet, director of the health, environmental and risk management agency, this impressive circulation of Covid-19 can be explained by the movements of people and the winter period which is very conducive to transmission.

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