2023-10-20 11:06:13
The Covid vaccination campaign in France is struggling to take off, while the epidemic seems to be in decline / Getty Images/iStockphoto. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
The peak of Covid-19 cases seems to have been reached, and the decline is confirmed on a national scale, according to the latest data published by Santé Publique France. However, certain departments in the North-East quarter remain particularly affected, such as Meurthe-et-Moselle with 93 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, Bas-Rhin and Moselle, with more than 86 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Conversely, the departments in the southern third of the country seem less affected by Covid, and record the lowest incidence rates in the country: 15 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 16 in Gard or even 19 in the Hautes-Alpes.
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In Paris, the incidence is 32 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, 29 in Gironde, 30 in Bouches-du-Rhône, 42 in the Nord department and 56 in Rhône.
Only four departments have a strong increase
An incidence rate in sharp decline in many departments from one week to the next. 72 of the 96 metropolitan departments recorded a drop in the incidence rate: -39% in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, -38% in Gers, -37% in Vaucluse.
Note, however, a marked increase in Essonne (+41%), Haute-Marne (+27%), Jura (+24%) and Saône-et-Loire (+20%), the only departments to exceed the 20% increase. Be careful, however, with these figures, since the incidence rate is only calculated according to tests carried out in laboratories, and does not take into account self-tests.
A decline on a national scale which is taking place in the middle of the vaccination campaign against Covid and flu, aimed primarily at the most vulnerable groups, which is struggling to get started: at the end of last week, barely 1.8% of people aged over 65 had received their injection following the launch of the new campaign which had been brought forward to October 2 due to a sharp increase in the number of Covid-19 cases.
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