Be ready to bring out your best masks because the tenth wave of Covid-19 is approaching. Indeed, the Public Health France site is responsible for listing the key figures related to the Covid-19 epidemic. This month’s data are harbingers of a possible new wave of this virus. The Ministry of Health website has so far recorded nine waves of Covid-19 epidemics since the start of the pandemic.
As epidemic waves and variants of this virus progressed, Covid-19 became a classic virus, like the flu. Thus, at the start of the school year, hospitals were faced with a triple epidemic of Covid-19, influenza and bronchiolitis in children. If the first quarter of François Braun, Minister of Health, was complicated, it is certainly not the last. Indeed, while the health sector is still in the midst of a crisis, the data recorded by Santé Publique France reveals a trend towards the tenth wave of the Covid-19 epidemic. Find out in our slideshow below if your department is concerned.
Among the data that predicts a future wave, we first find the figures related to contamination. The incidence rate is then noted as well as the evolution of the incidence rate. It has also reached very high levels in recent weeks in several departments. Another worrying figure: the number of hospitalizations in seven days. In the Loire, for example, there is a 63.64% increase in occupied beds.
The last worrying and revealing figure of a future epidemic wave of Covid-19 is the evolution of the number of deaths in each department. Indeed, the evolution of the death incidence rate is frightening in certain departments. As a reminder, according to the definition of INSEE, “in epidemiology, the incidence rate reports the number of new cases of a pathology observed during a given period”. The incidence rate of deaths and its evolution therefore correspond to the number of people who died of this disease, here over a period of seven days between the week of March 20 and Monday March 27.
Find out in our slideshow below if your department is one of the most affected by the increase in deaths linked to Covid-19.