The Timonde intensive care unit in Marseille, September 28, 2020 (illustration) -
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A worse situation than during the first two waves.
The Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region is currently recording a record number of critical care hospitalizations (resuscitation, intensive care), with 559 patients affected, more than during the peaks of the first and second waves, announced Thursday the ARS.
"Since last fall, the tension has been very high in health establishments, the number of Covid patients being on a very high plateau requiring the creation of nearly 300 resuscitation beds", writes the regional health agency in his newsletter.
"Levels never reached before"
The number of people who died in hospital, which had been in decline for eight weeks, has also been increasing since March 29, according to ARS Paca, with 232 deaths this week, far below the weekly peak of 465 deaths, however. observed in the region in November.
The incidence rate is 494 per 100,000 inhabitants in the region, against a national average of 467. It is particularly high in the Bouches-du-Rhône, at 575. The ARS also notes a major increase in "rates of screening ”,“ at levels never seen before ”.
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