Lyon, July 6, 2015. Illustration of the emergency department of the Edouard Herriot hospital in Lyon -

Elisa Frisullo / 20 Minutes

  • The report on the health situation at HCLs published on Tuesday by the CHU de Lyon shows a stabilization of hospitalizations and admissions in reactive cases due to the coronavirus.

  • A plateau observed since the end of December in the Lyon metropolis, where the Covid monitoring indicators have hardly changed.

  • Having started to rise again at the end of February, the incidence rate of the virus is down again but the share of the English variant in contaminations continues to increase.

    An element that encourages vigilance.

A plateau that goes on forever.

Since the end of December, the Covid-19 monitoring indicators, scrutinized every day in the hospitals of the Lyon metropolitan area, have hardly changed.

After a slight increase in hospitalizations and intensive care admissions observed between mid-January and early February, the figures have stabilized, as confirmed again this Tuesday by the report published by the Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL).

They remain at the same levels as those observed in mid-October, before the epidemic peak of the second wave, then mid-December.

In one week, the number of Covid + patients hospitalized at the CHU has not changed (345 people) and the reaction counted 77 patients on March 9, two less than seven days ago.

In these intensive care units, however, the staff must always face strong pressure, with a bed occupancy rate close to 95%.

Several factors explain this tension: the sheave must accommodate both severe forms of coronavirus (45% of patients treated) but also patients with other pathologies.

And the additional beds "armed" to cope with the epidemic peak in November have been gradually closed.

Today, 177 places are available in sheaves, as last week, against 277 beds dedicated to intensive care in mid-November.

The evolution of the situation at the HCL since the end of August.

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The incidence rate decreases, the proportion of variants increases

Beyond these indicators, which are invaluable for measuring the level of tension in hospital structures, the incidence rate observed in the Lyon metropolitan area also confirms the stagnation of the epidemic.

On the rise at the end of February, this indicator making it possible to assess the level of circulation of the virus within the population, has significantly decreased.

It amounts, over the sliding week from February 27 to March 5, to 236.4 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

It was 244.1 cases on February 25, according to data published daily by Public Health France.

An encouraging health development, especially as the share of the English variant, a very contagious form, continues to increase.

On March 5, it represented 57% of Covid-19 contaminations recorded in the Rhône according to the Regional Health Agency, against only 1.5% two months ago.

The threat of variants and the low vaccination coverage of the population prompted the government to place the Rhône among the departments under reinforced surveillance.

Concretely, the controls by the police of the respect of the curfew and the sanitary measures must be more numerous.

And supermarkets of more than 10,000 m2 (25 shopping centers concerned) were in turn banned from opening their doors last weekend.

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