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  • The positivity rate in the region is 4.2% (4.9% the previous week), and the incidence rate is 113.3 per 100,000 inhabitants (down 27%).

  • "This favorable situation should not however modify our behavior", points out Public Health France.

  • The establishment also warns against the new variants, and in particular the English variant which is present in all the departments of the region.

Good news is rather scarce on the front lines of the coronavirus epidemic, and the words are usually much more alarmist.

But for once, the regional weekly update of Public Health France shows encouraging signs

"This is good news that must be underlined" indicates Public Health France.

For two weeks, "we have observed a significant drop in Sars-CoV-2 surveillance indicators" in New Aquitaine.

“The number of identified cases is clearly decreasing as well as the positivity rate reflecting a deceleration of the circulation of the virus in our region, and this is observed in all the departments and, whatever the age groups.

In short, "the dynamics of the epidemic are slowing down.

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"Vigilance is always required"

The positivity rate in the region is now 4.2% (4.9% the previous week), and the incidence rate of 113.3 per 100,000 inhabitants (a decrease of 27% compared to the previous week). ).

It varies from 62.2 in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, to 146.3 in Deux-Sèvres.

In Gironde, it is 112.8.

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Of course, "this favorable situation should not however modify our behavior" and "vigilance is always required because even in this context of decrease, the indicators remain at a high level: we are still well above the threshold of he alert of 50 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants and the number of hospitalizations remains high in our health establishments.

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Beware of new "increasingly present" variants

The number of new hospitalizations is also decreasing with nearly a hundred hospitalizations and about twenty intensive care admissions less compared to the previous week.

At the same time, analyzes show that new variants “are increasingly present.

"" The latest data show a generalized diffusion of the new English variant which is present in all the departments of the region.

"The South African and Brazilian variants" are also present but to a lesser extent.

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