• The stabilization of certain figures in Occitania shows that the fifth wave is reaching its peak there.

  • But the situation will continue to worsen in hospitals which have further raised their alert level.

  • The ARS advises residents to give priority to their treating doctors or the 15th before going to the emergency room.

“A generalized epidemic outbreak which spares no territory.

This is how Pierre Ricordeau, the director general of the regional health agency, describes the situation in Occitanie.

The incidence rate, which has been "multiplied by three in three weeks", reached 600 cases of Covid-19 per 100,000 inhabitants (729.6 in Gard, the most affected department) and even 750 cases in the population unvaccinated under 10 years old.

On the front of the Omicron variant, there is still only one identified case for the time being - the one unveiled on Monday of a Haut-Garonnais returning from a trip - but 300 other "situations are under surveillance", which leaves predict that the curve could seriously take off.

Stabilization in the elderly

The only optimistic touch in this gloomy picture, the ARS detects the beginning of stabilization of cases both in the Hautes-Pyrénées which were breaking records and "in the oldest population", the one which received the recall earlier.

"All this gives credibility to the hypothesis that we are close to the epidemic peak", advances Pierre Ricordeau.

Unfortunately, with the famous "delay effect of 15 days" on hospital admissions, the health peak is itself still far ahead, whereas the private and public establishments in the region are already "in capacity difficulties" and "in a very critical situation ”.

They recorded 700 new admissions in one week (+ 80%) and 180 intensive care admissions.

To the point that the ARS has just raised the alert level by asking for "a general mobilization" for the holiday period.

Do not go directly to the emergency room

The health authorities are also launching a call to residents, asking them to prioritize their attending physician or a call to 15 before going to an emergency department.

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The other instruction to help caregivers to overcome a situation worsened by the arrival of the flu, remains vaccination and recourse to the vaccine booster.

Tuesday, with 87,000 injections.

And the "conversions" are not negligible since 293,000 unvaccinated have taken the plunge since September 1.

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