The peak of the 9th wave of Covid-19 seems to have been crossed, the contaminations and the incidence rate being down sharply this Sunday, December 25. “A drop in the incidence rate and the positivity rate was observed in almost all regions and age groups”last week, detailed Public Health France on Thursday in its weekly update.
In the last 24 hours, the downward trend is confirmed. This Saturday, 40,744 positive cases for Covid-19 were identified, a decrease of 22.5% compared to last Saturday. Moreover, this figure is down for the 11th consecutive day.
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The incidence rate fell below 500 per 100,000 inhabitants in mainland France (to 482). Finally, the test positivity rate also tends to decrease, it is at 23%, a decrease of 12.4% compared to last week.
The call for liberal doctors to “relieve hospitals”
This spike is also beginning to translate to the hospital. Emergency room visits for Covid-19 decreased in one week by 36%, hospitalizations by 4% and intensive care admissions by 6%.
“None of my patients vaccinated with a bivalent vaccine had Covid afterwards”
The situation in hospitals nevertheless remains very complicated due to the ongoing triple epidemic of Covid-19, influenza and bronchiolitis in infants. On Friday, the director general of the Ile-de-France regional health agency, Amélie Verdier, called “solemnly” to the mobilization of liberal health professionals and private clinics to “relieve the hospitals”saturated by this triple winter epidemic.
“We really have to be all – city medicine, clinics, public hospitals – in solidarity”she underlined, expressing the ” need “ that independent doctors, nurses and pharmacists also ensure their “advisory role” in “this critical situation”.
