It is a symbolic threshold, but it shows the decline in the circulation of covid-19 in the region: the incidence rate has dropped below 1,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in Alsace according to the latest figures from the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of the Grand-Est, published Friday, April 22. A first since the beginning of March.
Stable hospitalizations
This incidence rate is now 958 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in Bas-Rhin, and 829 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in Haut-Rhin. In both departments, it has almost halved in the space of a month. But this circulation rate remains very high.
Hospitalizations – which always follow the contamination curves with delay – remain stable in the region. 307 people are hospitalized for covid in the Haut-Rhin, including 24 in intensive care. The figures are higher in the Bas-Rhin, where 380 people are currently in hospital because of the coronavirus, including 30 in intensive care.
Enough to occupy the resuscitation services up to 30%. This figure was close to 70% in January.