The number of patients in hospital on the rise, especially among the elderly

Public Health France has published its latest figures on Covid-19, and it is not very encouraging. The week of June 20 to 26, the incidence rate increased by 53%, an acceleration compared to the previous week (+29%), according to the latest bulletin from the health agency. Thursday, the number of contaminations thus amounted to 133,346, an increase of 67% in seven days.

But it is especially on the side of the hospital that the concern is in order. The rise in hospitalizations continued (+19% in one week), after a 26% increase the previous week. As of Thursday, 15,836 people were hospitalized with a diagnosis of Covid-19. Hospitalization rates were particularly high among 80-89 year olds (35.4 per 100,000 inhabitants) and 90 and over (61.8 per 100,000), specifies Public Health France.

Reminder call for over 60s

Over the week studied, the number of deaths in hospital and in medico-social establishments and services also increased after several weeks of decline (225, +3%). Over the period, vaccination coverage has progressed very little, notes Public Health France. Thus, only 25.5% of those aged 60-79 and 31.3% of those aged 80 and over who were eligible had received their second booster dose. Health authorities have been campaigning for several days to encourage the most vulnerable to carry out this recall.

“At the moment T, the situation is not critical”, assured Friday on LCI the spokesperson of the government, Olivia Grégoire. “We are absolutely vigilant (…) The Prime Minister (Elisabeth Borne) saw yesterday (Thursday) all the representatives of the political parties of the National Assembly but also of the Senate to explain what we are going to propose, since from the week Next, a bill will be discussed in Parliament to strengthen our epidemiological surveillance tools,” she added.

On Thursday, the WHO said it expected “high levels” of Covid-19 in Europe this summer, carried by the Omicron BA.5 variant, even more contagious than the previous ones. It became the majority in France on June 13, representing 59% of interpretable sequences.

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