Covid-19 incidence and positivity rates “continued to rise” during the week of March 13-19, but remained “at low levels,” he wrote in his latest epidemiological bulletin Public Health France on Wednesday.
This increase is observed “for the second consecutive week, remaining at low levels, in a context of a moderate decrease in the screening rate,” it is specified.
The incidence rate is thus 70 per 100,000 inhabitants and increases by 26% compared to the measure the previous week, with 47,274 new confirmed cases. We have to go back to mid-January, after a slight epidemic rebound, to find this level of the incidence rate.
These slight increases are observed in mainland France, except for Corsica. Abroad, “the incidence rate was declining or stable.”
Increase in visits to the emergency room
Santé Publique France also writes that the number of visits to the emergency room on suspicion of Covid-19 was “increasing” last week, with 1,899 registered tickets (+ 20%), “as well as acts at SOS Médecins”, with 1,311 acts (+29%).
If the agency de Santé souligne dans are rapport that “the new hospitalizations diminish” the week of the week, the site du gouvernement notes on March 22 a house in this category: +15% on the sept derniers days, with more than 300 patients admitted Every day.
The Omicron variant remains in the majority in France, in particular with the XBB sublineage. The latter represented 71% of the sequences analyzed while “in parallel, BA.5 and its sublineages continued to decline.”
According to Public Health France, “the level of booster vaccinations adapted to the Omicron variant was still insufficient. As of March 20, 2023, 23.2% of people aged 60 to 79 and 25.9% of people 80 years or older had received this booster.
Source: BFM TV
