On February 27, 2020, a couple returning from Egypt was hospitalized in Brest.
They are the first known Covid-19 positive patients in the region.
Two years after these first patients, 900,000 positive cases have been recorded in the region, i.e. a third of the Breton population.
The regional health agency hopes that the epidemic is overcome and presents the figures of its action for two years.
Vertiginous.
Perfect timing.
While the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, had just announced the lifting of the wearing of the mask indoors and the end of the vaccination pass on March 14, the Breton regional health agency (ARS) took stock of its action since the appearance of the first cases of Covid-19, two years ago.
A presentation that sounded like "the last" as the epidemic recedes every day to slip below 700 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the region.
“This is not the end of the health crisis.
It would be a presumptuous message,” warns Stéphane Mulliez.
The director of ARS Bretagne is cautious but also reassuring about the evolution of the epidemic in a region long spared.
“Incidence rates are falling, the reproduction rate is falling, hospitalizations are going down.
The signs are encouraging.”
Two years after the appearance of the first positive cases, its services have drawn up a quantified assessment of their action.
A record in the rearview mirror that almost makes you dizzy.
900,000.
This is the number of inhabitants of the region who had already contracted Covid-19 at the beginning of March, i.e. around 30% of the regional population.
“At the very beginning, we put pins on the map of the region each time we had a positive case”, recalls the director of the ARS.
A system quickly abandoned.
“When the epidemic started, I thought we had it until June.
At no time would I have imagined that we would have it for more than two years”, concedes Stéphane Mulliez.
10 millions.
The figure seems insane but it is commensurate with the impressive queues generated by the contaminations of the Omicron wave.
In Brittany, 10 million PCR and antigen tests have been carried out in two years, i.e. an average of three tests per inhabitant.
Data that does not take self-tests into account.
14,000.
The number of people hospitalized in Brittany in total for two years.
Nearly 2,300 people went to intensive care units in hospitals in the region.
On March 3, 2022, 69 patients were still being treated in these units reserved for the most severe cases.
“This shows how much the hospitals have been asked,” recalled Stéphane Mulliez, paying tribute to the nursing staff.
24 million euros.
Credits allocated by the regional health agency to fight the epidemic for two years.
This includes in particular the purchase of 64 million masks distributed to Breton establishments.
317.
At the height of the crisis, the region was able to increase to 317 intensive care beds, whereas it had only 164 before the Covid-19 crisis.
Discussions are underway to try to determine the "right" number of beds to keep now that the epidemic seems to be slowing down.
189.
Long spared by the epidemic, Brittany is one of the regions that has received the most patients from other territories to relieve the hospitals of Hauts-de-France, Grand-Est or even Corsica.
The striking images of trains or planes chartered especially for the sick will remain etched in our memories.
Transferred from Paris to Brest, the singer Christophe is one of those who lost their lives despite their transfer.
220 health professionals have been deployed in overseas territories.
2.347.
The number of people who died of Covid-19 in Breton hospitals.
To this must be added more than 350 residents of nursing homes and an unknown number of people who died in their homes.
96.5%.
This is the percentage of people over the age of 12 who have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
Brittany is the most vaccinated French region.
85% of the population of age to do so has taken their booster dose.
“We had to manage the vaccination, the screenings, the supply of masks.
It was like running a marathon at the speed of a sprint”, testifies the chief of staff of the ARS.
To deal with it, the agency has hired 65 people to reinforce the 350 agents already in place.
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