The Covid-19 is back. On Tuesday June 28, nearly 150,000 people tested positive in France. On average over the past seven days, more than 78,000 new cases have been recorded daily, a figure that has quadrupled since the beginning of the month. In question, the BA.4 and BA.5 variants, which are more transmissible and which seem to escape more from the immunity acquired by vaccination or infection.
New infections are not the only ones to start rising again: hospital admissions of patients with Covid-19 have almost doubled in two weeks and the number of positive people in intensive care seems to have started to increase slightly in recent days, to reach 898 patients as of June 28. But is the whole of France affected in the same way? Which departments are most affected by this resumption of the epidemic? Franceinfo takes stock in maps.
A very high incidence in Ile-de-France
In France, the incidence rate varies from simple to triple between the departments: while there were less than 350 cases per 100,000 inhabitants last week in the Vosges or Haute-Marne, they were more than 1,100 in Paris and in the Hauts-de-Seine. Ile-de-France is generally the most affected region, since it is home to the four departments with the highest incidence rates in mainland France.
Brittany is also on the front line, with an incidence rate that exceeds 700 in all the departments of the region. Conversely, the Grand-Est is the region the most spared, the incidence rate of the epidemic being less than 500 in two thirds of the departments that make it up.
Overseas, Martinique has an incidence rate of close to 1,500, the highest in France. Guyana, Reunion and Mayotte are much less affected, with an incidence rate of only 28 in the latter department, by far the most spared.
A stronger dynamic in Paca
When we look at the evolution of the epidemic, Occitanie and the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region are among the territories which show the strongest growth in the number of new cases of Covid-19. The incidence rate has thus increased by more than 78% in Tarn-et-Garonne, Hautes-Alpes and Tarn. The situation is also worrying in the Bouches-du-Rhône since the department has both a high incidence rate (745) and a strong upward dynamic (+77% in one week). Pays de la Loire and northern New Aquitaine are also facing a sharp rise in cases, with an increase in new infections that exceeds 65% in Vendée, Maine-et-Loire and Vienne.
If the number of cases is increasing in all departments of France, with the exception of Martinique, the increase is less significant in certain regions: Ile-de-France, which has the highest incidence rate in France , sees new cases increase more slowly than elsewhere. The growth in the incidence rate does not exceed 55% in any department in the Ile-de-France region. Lorraine, Alsace, Auvergne and the overseas departments also show lower epidemic growth rates than the rest of France.