• The incidence rate in the Landes has dropped back below 50 per 100,000 inhabitants but the ARS says it remains cautious.

  • In this department where a cluster of around thirty people in an nursing home killed two people, the share of the variant reached 70%.

  • "72% of people affected by the delta in the department were not vaccinated" assures the departmental delegate of the ARS who will launch a specific vaccination plan this summer.

The health situation seems to be improving on Tuesday in the Landes, where the progression of the delta variant in recent days greatly worried the authorities.

The Minister of Health Olivier Véran asked this Tuesday on France Info to "not give up" in the face of a variant which now represents 20% of cases in France, but stressed that it was declining in the Landes.

In this department, the government carried out "a very strong action plan, contact tracing (tracing of transmission chains), mass vaccination, and the incidence rate fell by 10% in a few days".

"A cluster of 30 people can raise the incidence rate"

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, Didier Couteaud, departmental delegate of the ARS in the Landes, confirms this trend.

“The proportion of the delta variant remains in the order of 70% of cases, it is this virus that takes precedence over the others, but we are on a top-down pattern.

The incidence rate in the department fell in a few days from 52 to 46 per 100,000, we manage to contain this variant through the entire action plan, but we remain on a thread.

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“We must remain extremely careful,” he continues, “to see which trend we will evolve in the coming days, because we have a variant that spreads very quickly, and at the slightest regrouping where the barrier gestures are not sufficiently respected, this can go up.

A cluster of 30 people can bring up the incidence rate, which is why we are very attentive to everything that affects communities, companies, nursing homes, etc. ”

Two residents of an nursing home died

According to several studies, the vaccines would be a little less effective against this delta, even if the level of protection remains high.

But vaccination does not completely protect you from developing serious forms.

The cluster of around thirty people detected on June 17 at the nursing home in Pontonx-sur-l'Adour thus resulted in the death of two residents vaccinated at the end of last week.

Even if they were people over 75 with significant co-morbidities, “the question that this poses, points out Didier Couteaud, is that the vaccine was enough?

No, the vaccine was not 100% effective and we can deplore it, but we must also remember that nursing homes were severely affected in November-December and January, with much higher levels of severity, and unparalleled levels of death.

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"The virus spreads much faster on unvaccinated people"

Didier Couteaud also insists on a figure: “72% of people affected by the delta in the department were not vaccinated, and only 8% had their two injections.

»Conclusion?

“Clearly the virus spreads much faster on unvaccinated people.

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As we approach "60% of vaccinated in the department" a specific vaccination action plan will be deployed throughout the summer in the Landes, to leave no one by the side of the road.

“We must encourage all those who wish to be vaccinated.

Our objective will be "to go towards" and to take action in companies, or to reserve slots in vaccination centers.

»And maybe the campsites, too?

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