Covid-19: these 20 departments under surveillance in metropolitan France
While the executive spoke Wednesday of a worrying situation in ten departments, then a fortnight Thursday morning, it is finally twenty departments that are now under surveillance. Saturday, Prime Minister Jean Castex asked the prefects concerned to take "immediate measures".
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The areas under surveillance cover all of Île-de-France, Rhône, Bouches-du-Rhône, Oise, Nord, Pas-de-Calais, La Somme, Drôme, Moselle, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Eure-et-Loir. In the end, nearly 25 million French people are affected.
Incidence levels around 250 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, the proportion of variants, hospital pressure "close to the critical threshold" and "viral circulation that is beginning to accelerate seriously" were the basis for their designation.
These territories will be subject to local containment measures from the weekend of March 6 if the situation continues to deteriorate, after "consultations with elected officials," indicated Jean Castex, the head of government, at his press conference Thursday.
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The Prime Minister also stated that the English variant of coronavirus, which is more contagious, "now affects about half of people with Covid in France."
This variant, which was less than 40 per cent according to figures released a week ago, raises fears of an epidemic explosion because of its greater contagion.
Wednesday, February 24, the government spokesman, Gabriel Attal alerted on the situation, "it gets worse," he explained at the end of the Council of Ministers, and "is very worrying in a dozen departments".
While the Alpes-Maritimes and Dunkirk have imposed partial confinement for the next two weekends, it is time for territorial measures. "some territories even require decisions, rapid and strong measures in the face of the imminent risks before us," stressed Gabriel Attal.
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The North, the Île-de-France, the Moselle and the Southeast
The ten departments most affected, and with the worst incidence rates (over 290 positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants), according to Santé publique France are the Alpes-Maritimes (599.8 cases per 100,000 inhabitants), Pas-de-Calais (352.4), Bouches-du-Rhône (335.2), Seine-Saint-Denis (317.8), Le Var (314), La Moselle (310.8), Le Nord (304), Paris (303.6), Val-de-Marne (301
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Other departments have high incidence rates, exceeding 250 positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants, such as the Oise in the Hauts-de-France or the Val-d 'Oise, and the Essonne in the Île-de-France. The western part of the country has much lower incidence rates in Brittany, New Aquitaine or Occitanie.
Among these red departments, Pas-de-Calais is the one with the highest hospital tension, with a filling rate of 128% of its resuscitation services. But this indicator is worrying in other departments, which are not in the ten mentioned above, such as in Drôme, where the rate reaches 138%, or in the Hautes-Alpes, where it flirts with 150%.
The Pas-de-Calais region has also seen an increase in the number of hospitalizations due to Covid-19 among the largest in recent days, with this figure approaching 50%. Morbihan, Haute-Corsica and Ariège also face sharp increases in these hospitalizations. In Paris, the average number of hospitalizations is decreasing.
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