A patient with Covid-19 transferred to Strasbourg: the scene dates from May but is currently recurring.

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  • The Grand-Est has none of its ten reconfigured departments, but that is not why the health situation is idyllic.

    It is even "worrying", according to the Regional Health Agency.

  • "The incidence rate is high everywhere, none of the departments escapes it", detailed the prefect of the greater region Josiane Chevalier.

    “We have a lot of pressure on our hospital system.

    We are now at 135% of our initial resuscitation capacity, ”added the regional director of the Regional Health Agency.

  • Alsace has been welcoming patients from Moselle for ten days.

The health situation in the Grand-Est is "worrying".

The prefect of the region and the director of the local Regional Health Agency (ARS) repeated it on Monday during a press point.

And this even if none of the ten departments is today affected by the current reconfinement.

"The incidence rate is high everywhere, no one escapes it," said State representative Josiane Chevalier.

The figures illustrate this with in particular, on March 19, 360 positive cases of Covid-19 per 100,000 inhabitants in Aube, the most affected department.

Long an object of concern, the Moselle has returned to a rate closer to the national average [269 against 277].

"Things have improved, in particular thanks to a massive vaccination campaign," confirms the prefect.

In Alsace, the epidemic is for the moment better controlled, with around 200 positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the Bas-Rhin, and just over 150 in the Haut-Rhin.

This is also why Colmar and Strasbourg are currently welcoming Moselle patients to their hospitals.

"There have been one or two daily transfers for ten days but it is not planned for the moment that we help other regions", explained Virginie Cayré.

"Strong pressure on our hospital system"

The director of the ARS du Grand-Est warns: “We have great pressure on our hospital system.

We are now at 135% of our initial resuscitation capacity.

There are now 290 patients in intensive care, 40 more in a week.

All the indicators are deteriorating… We are now back to the peak of November, before the second confinement, in terms of hospital pressure.

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“The situation is deteriorating in the region.

There are 14,000 new infections over the last week, as in the second week of November, in the middle of the second confinement, ”says Michel Verney, of Public Health France.

“This affects the ten departments of the region and all age groups.

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Vaccination will "accelerate very clearly in April and May"

Hence a repeated call to respect the sanitary instructions and the famous credo "Test, alert, protect".

Precisely, concerning vaccination, 10% of the inhabitants of the Grand-Est have already received at least one dose.

"It will accelerate very clearly in April and May," promised Virginie Cayré, announcing massive deliveries of Pfizer / BioNtech and Moderna vaccines.

“In April, we will receive a little less than 143,000 per week and a little less than 200,000 each week in May.

Against 60 to 65,000 in early March.

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New vaccination centers could then be opened, or those already existing could be reinforced.

"We are really in a race against the clock," sums up the prefect of the Grand-Est who announced that she wanted to continue "to avoid all the demonstrations which would lead to mixing of the population.

As in Marseille on Sunday, where 6,500 people marched for a carnival.

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