Strasbourg (AFP)
The Grand Est Regional Health Agency (ARS) announced Monday that it had asked all health establishments to trigger the "white plan" to "deal with the significant epidemic rebound".
This request, addressed to establishments on Friday, is justified by the "exceptional health situation", underlines the ARS in a press release.
The white plan had already been activated at the regional level by the ARS of Ile-de-France.
It has also been activated in a more localized manner in Lille, Lyon, Grenoble or Saint-Etienne.
According to data from Public Health France, the weekly incidence rate on October 22 was 465.9 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the Strasbourg metropolis, a figure higher than that of the Greater Paris metropolis (444.8) or Marseille (465.5).
The figures recorded for the metropolitan areas of Metz (337.5) and Nancy (297) are also above the maximum alert threshold, set at 250 per 100,000 inhabitants.
The health situation deteriorated rapidly in the Grand Est region: between September 22 and October 23, the incidence rate was multiplied by 10 in Haute-Marne and in the Vosges, by 7 in the Aube, by 5 in Moselle, by 4.5 in Bas-Rhin and by 4 in Haut-Rhin.
The white plan is a device which should make it possible to "immediately mobilize all kinds of resources" available to hospitals "in the event of an influx of patients", recalls the ARS.
It thus wishes to implement a "rearmament plan" for resuscitation capacities, and "guarantee the mobilization" of medical and paramedical personnel.
It also calls for "coordination" between all health professionals, whether public or private, city or hospital, salaried or liberal.
In conclusion, the ARS welcomes the "exemplary solidarity" and the mobilization of professionals during the first wave of the epidemic, in the spring, which particularly affected the Grand Est region.
"It is this same solidarity that will make it possible to deal with the second wave of the epidemic which has started," she assures us.
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