Mélina Facchin 7:20 p.m., November 17, 2021

In the Haut-Rhin, epidemic indicators have returned to the red.

If for the moment the deterioration of the health situation is not being felt in hospitals, the relatively low vaccination rate in the department raises fears of a devastating fifth wave.

REPORTING

The fifth wave of the Covid-19 epidemic has apparently indeed started.

In several departments of France, the figures are climbing again very quickly.

For the first time in several months, the incidence rate exceeds 150 in Corsica, the Bouches du Rhône and Ardèche.

Europe 1 went to the Haut-Rhin, which had been hit hard during the first wave.

The department is once again starting to be in the red.

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Cases of Covid in vaccinated people

166: this is the department's current incidence rate. Many Mulhousians see more and more cases of Covid-19 around them. "In my family, there is a case of Covid while it is vaccinated. It started from a nursery where the children were infected, they infected the parents. Parents had other children who were at So school is going fast in the end. We have the impression that it is on the rise again, "explains a resident.

The good news is that for the moment, this resumption of the epidemic has not been observed at the Mulhouse hospital.

20 Covid patients are being treated there for the moment, including five in intensive care.

This is very little and quite logical for Frédéric Tryniszewski, the president of SOS Médecin: "What can be reassuring is that it rather affects younger populations, 20-40 years old, who do not have very serious forms. . And so we hope and we cross our fingers that the hospitalization rates will not rise as significantly as during the first waves. "

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And it is also the 20-40s who are the least vaccinated.

The population is rather young in Mulhouse, which perhaps explains that the Haut-Rhin is the department of the Grand Est where the vaccination rate is the lowest after the Meuse: only 70% of the population is vaccinated.