This 15th week of the year does not lie to the previous ones in New Aquitaine: the figures for the coronavirus epidemic are “generally stable” or slightly down, but “they remain high”, warns Public Health France this Friday 22 april. The public health agency also notes that “the highest incidence rates are still observed” in three departments from the north of the region: Corrèze, Deux-Sèvres and Vienne.
Like the previous week, it is the incidence and positivity rates that are tending to decrease in New Aquitaine. The latter, which represents the percentage of positive cases, compared to the number of tests, is now 33.8%, against 36.3% a week earlier. But numbers remain high, such as the number of new cases identified per week : more than 60,000 in this 15th week of the year, against 67,000 the previous one.
The north of New Aquitaine more affected
Even though “the evolution of viral circulation is relatively homogeneous throughout the territory”, some departments have much higher incidence rates. This is the case of Corrèze (1,316 per 100,000 inhabitants), Deux-Sèvres (1,238) and Vienne (1,200). Conversely, three departments fell below 950 cases per 1,000 inhabitants : Pyrénées-Atlantiques (845), Lot-et-Garonne (868) and Haute-Vienne (911).
Hospitalizations: uncertain figures
As for hospitalizations, the number of new admissions is lower than that of the previous week, notes Public Health France, 716 against 814. But this beginning of a decline is not certain: “these data are not consolidated and may increase”, she says. More certain number: people aged 60 and over are still the most represented among new hospitalizations.
If the figures for critical care admissions are not consolidated, the public health agency still notes a “slight increase” and notes that “more than half of these patients are between 60 and 79 years old”. As of April 19, 1,726 patients with coronavirus were hospitalized in New Aquitaineincluding 131 in critical care.