• For three weeks, between 50 and 60 patients have been hospitalized for Covid-19 when they occupied 160 beds a month and a half ago.

  • Vaccination accelerates from June 19, especially when the Toulouse vaccinodrome will increase to 10,000 injections per day, against 5,000 currently.

  • The majority variant in the region remains the alpha (British variant) at 88% and only 0.1% of the Delta (Indian variant).

After more than a year of health crisis, the signals are green on the side of the Toulouse University Hospital which has observed for several weeks a drop in hospitalizations after a month of high phase in the spring.

For three weeks, between 50 and 60 patients have been hospitalized for Covid-19 when they occupied 160 beds a month and a half ago.

The restriction measures have therefore borne fruit, combined with the acceleration of vaccination, which is now accessible to all.

A rise in power which will further intensify from June 19, when the Toulouse vaccinodrome will increase to 10,000 injections per day, against 5,000 currently.

Resumption of surgery

Of the fifty or so patients hospitalized for coronavirus at the CHU, 9 are in intensive care, 8 in intensive care and critical care and 33 in other departments. This decrease in hospitalizations allows the hospital to return to normal activity and to reschedule certain operations which had been suspended at the height of the crisis. "87% of the activity is carried out in surgery and 100% for consultations", specifies Marc Penaud, director of the Toulouse University Hospital.

This return to a usual activity has allowed the CHU to slightly relax the rules of access to the hospital, in particular for visitors, volunteers and accompanying persons.

However, one to three new patients still arrive in the wards every day, a sign that the virus is still circulating.

"We see the impact of the vaccine with fewer hospitalized seniors but more young people, sometimes with severe forms," ​​says Alexa Debard, infectious disease specialist at Toulouse University Hospital.

The majority variant in the region remains the alpha (British variant) at 88% and only 0.1% of the Delta (Indian variant) ”.

70% of CHU staff vaccinated

In terms of vaccination, the acceleration is confirmed with 210,000 people already passed through the aisles of the vaccinodrome and 58,000 health professionals also protected.

At the CHU, nearly 70% of the staff is vaccinated and its pharmacy delivers 80,000 doses each week throughout the department, including 35,000 for the single vaccinodrome of the former exhibition center.

“Currently, nearly 600 vaccines take place every hour at the vaccinodrome but we will increase the load to reach one thousand on June 19, which will make 10,000 injections per week on this site, the largest in France in terms of the number of doses administered, details Julie Oudet, emergency doctor SAMU 31. In Haute-Garonne, around a million people can claim vaccination so it will take around six months for each to have had two doses ”.

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