The figures for the Covid-19 epidemic confirm an acceleration of contaminations in Pays-de-la-Loire.
Many school classes are closed: a record since the start of the health crisis.
This acceleration is explained by several factors according to the Regional Health Agency: the weather and the effectiveness of the vaccine.
"The wave is there, and it is accelerating". The words of Dr Pierre Blaise, from the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Pays-de-la-Loire, are clear. The epidemic situation in the region is not improving. Worse, the Covid-19 epidemic has been amplifying for ten days. The region is therefore one of the poor performers in mainland France, with a positivity rate reaching 8%, against 3.8% on average in France. Today, the incidence rate has reached 172.5 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in Pays-de-la-Loire. 243 classes are also closed in the Nantes academy. A figure that had never been reached in this territory before.
How to explain the speed with which this new epidemic wave has started in the region?
While the Loire population has largely adhered to vaccination, with 78% of vaccinated.
“The big difference with this summer is twofold: today, we have entered winter, and the temperatures have dropped.
Then, we move away from the period when the population was vaccinated, ”tries to explain Pierre Blaise, indicating that the effects of the vaccine would decrease six months after the first injection.
30% of Covid patients in intensive care
On the other hand, if the epidemic resumed "a little earlier than elsewhere in France", it is also because of the many clusters detected at the beginning of the autumn.
"In particular tea dances, travel and retiree activities".
If the number of contaminations is now on the decline among those over 65, the epidemic wave is still being felt in hospital services.
The number of Covid patients in intensive care has exceeded the 30% mark (73 patients) in the region, which is the vigilance threshold.
Three regions have reached this threshold: Center-Val-de-Loire, the PACA region and Pays-de-la-Loire.
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