A slight decline and too early to suggest a plateau at the CHU de Lyon and even more an epidemic decline.
According to the latest point on Covid-10 published this Tuesday by the Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), intensive care admissions have decreased over the past week by 6.29%.
With 134 patients currently treated in intensive care, the CHU de Lyon, which has equipped some sixty additional beds in recent weeks, has seen the occupancy rate of the sheave stabilize at around 91%.
A slight improvement, therefore, which is however not noticeable outside the HCL, the support in sheaves having continued to progress in the rest of the department.
All services combined, hospitalizations linked to the coronavirus seem to be stabilizing, in the establishments managed by the CHU as in the whole of the department.
But hospital pressure remains strong, with 509 Covid + patients still hospitalized at HCL and 1,332 in the Rhône, Bourgoin-Jallieu and Vienne.
The incidence rate is falling
Small glimmer of hope all the same, the rate of incidence of the disease, revealing the level of circulation of the virus within the population, continues to decrease slowly.
On April 16, it stood at 440 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the Rhône and 455 cases in the metropolis of Lyon after having exceeded 550 cases per 100,000 inhabitants at the beginning of April.
As a reminder, a period of fifteen days usually separates the drop in the incidence rate of Covid-19 from the decrease in hospital pressure.
The next few days will therefore be decisive at the CHU de Lyon as elsewhere to ensure that the epidemic peak has been reached and that the third wave begins to decline.
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