As the Alpes-Maritimes enter a lockdown threshold during the next two weekends, the health crisis continues to impact the department and other regions of France. Here is the Covid update…
The government and the prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes have decided to implement a local lockdown in Nice as well as in all coastal communes of the department 06. This will be in effect from this Friday at 6 PM and will last until Monday at 6 AM, for two weeks. In the metropolitan area of Dunkirk, new measures are also being discussed due to the increasingly concerning sanitary situation. Dunkirk has an incidence rate of over 900 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. This rate has increased rapidly in just a few days.
This Tuesday, 20,064 new cases and 314 deaths were recorded by health authorities in the last 24 hours in France. The total toll now stands at 3,629,891 confirmed cases and 85,070 deaths (including 60,469 in hospitals) since the beginning of the epidemic.
The test positivity rate is 6.5%, compared to 6.4% the day before. To date, 2,603,702 people have received at least one dose of the vaccine in France. In hospitals, 9,362 new hospitalizations and 1,804 admissions to intensive care have been reported over the past seven days.
In the PACA region
In the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, a total of 1,625 people are hospitalized (-28), 456 people are in intensive care (-5), and 5,524 people have died from the coronavirus in hospitals since the beginning of the health crisis (+42).
207,951 people have received a first dose of the vaccine by February 22 in the PACA region. 80,269 have received both doses.
The test positivity rate has slightly decreased: 7.5% (compared to 7.7% the day before). In the Alpes-Maritimes, the rate has dropped from 10.4% to 10% today. The incidence rate is 364 (compared to 368 the day before). In the department 06, it is now 591 (compared to 580).
The Alpes-Maritimes report 370 conventional hospitalizations (-7), 108 patients in intensive care (+2), 234 patients in follow-up and rehabilitation care (-4). The bed occupancy rate has also decreased: 87.6% (compared to 90.6% the day before). 1,021 deaths have been recorded in hospitals since the beginning of the crisis.
