During the last week, the positivity rate of the 240,000 PCR tests carried out in Occitania reached 2.6%, in free fall if we compare it to the results of the month of April.
On average, there are 697 positive Covid-19 cases per day on average, almost 90% of the UK variant.
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For the time being, only nine cases of the Indian variant have been detected in the region, indicates the Regional Health Agency of Occitanie. All come from the cluster that was born on a tanker flying the Maltese flag and taken care of by the health authorities off Port-la-Nouvelle. Other suspected cases are being sequenced in the virology laboratory of the Toulouse University Hospital.
"Each time, these are imported cases, there is a link with India, there is no community transmission, that is to say from people carrying the virus which we do not know how it got. been transmitted.
At the national level, the Indian variant represents 0.1%, at the Occitanie level, it is very limited.
I'm not really worried, increasing vaccination and maintaining barrier gestures, it's a good thing to get back to the lowest possible level ”, explains Jacques Izopet, head of department of the virology laboratory at Toulouse-Purpan University Hospital. .
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