Covid-19: the alert threshold exceeded in Mayenne

The alert threshold is exceeded in Mayenne. With several outbreaks of Covid-19, one of which has spread to the population, the department slightly exceeded the alert threshold with 50.1 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants detected in seven days, according to the public health agency France (SpF). 

A test campaign has been launched in this department, reminding that the virus is still there. Guyana (332.3), badly affected, also exceeds this alert threshold of 50, according to data posted online on Tuesday by SpF. 

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Above the vigilance threshold 

As of July 11 (seven-day rolling week, July 5-11), the incidence, that is to say the number of cases detected in a week per 100,000 inhabitants, is also above the vigilance threshold, fixed at 10 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, in Seine-Saint-Denis. During the week of June 28 to July 4, this rate was less than 10 / 100,000 inhabitants in all departments of metropolitan France except for Mayenne (45/100,000). 

Incidence is one of the indicators for monitoring the evolution of the epidemic. This also includes the rate of positive virological diagnostic tests (which allow you to know if you are infected and detect a possible resumption of the epidemic) and the effective reproduction rate (R) which corresponds to the average number of people that a patient is contaminating. 

Hospitalizations on the rise 

When on average an infected person infects less than one, the epidemic decreases. If it infects two others (R = 2), the epidemic spreads; if it infects one (R = 1), the epidemic continues. This indicator started slightly up again in mainland France (R = 1.05). 

According to SpF data posted online on Tuesday evening, the departments with the highest number of people hospitalized in relation to their population are Guyana (51.6 hospitalizations per 100,000 inhabitants), Hauts-de-Seine (38.5 ) and Indre (37.3). In Mayenne, the number of people hospitalized has doubled, from 8 a week ago to 16 to 14 July. 

Santé Publique France specifies that a delay of up to nine days may intervene in the rise in the number of cases by laboratories and regional health agencies, and that the data transmitted are provisional and can be corrected later. 

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Elected officials demand the mandatory mask as soon as possible 

The president of the departmental council of Mayenne, Olivier Richefou (UDI) Wednesday demanded a prefectoral decree making the wearing of the mask compulsory in closed public places as soon as possible while several mayors of the department took a decree in this direction. "We are able to confine France in 48 hours and we would have to wait three weeks to force us to wear a mask? It's almost laughable," said Olivier Richefou on Wednesday at AFP. 

The day before, the president of the Departmental Council had already asked on Twitter for a prefectural decree on the subject. "There is an emergency!" He said. "It's on the right track," said Olivier Richefou on Wednesday, saying that he exchanged "twice" with the prefect on the subject. According to the elected official, the prefectural decree should make it mandatory to wear a mask in enclosed public places in municipalities near coronavirus outbreaks, such as Laval, Craon or Château-Gontier. 

With AFP

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