While new French cities are entering the maximum alert zone, the situation in the Ile-de-France region is becoming worrying. The metropolis has reached record figures: 17% of people tested for Covid-19 are positive. Interviewed today on RMC, the director of the Regional Health Agency, Aurélien Rousseau expressed his concerns.
“A figure that we had never reached”
In an interview given this Monday, October 12, on RMC, Aurélien Rousseau, director of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) referred to the latest figures regarding the situation of the epidemic in Ile-de-France. We learn that 17% of people tested for Covid-19 in the Parisian metropolis are positive. ” A number that we had never reached ” according to him.
Taking stock of the situation, Aurélien Rousseau announced “ with 474 patients, we have passed the 42% occupancy of intensive care beds by Covid patients in Ile-de-France “. In fact, more than 1,480 people occupy conventional hospital beds, 672 are in follow-up and rehabilitation care and almost a hundred in psychiatric beds. He also specified that the private sector was very mobilized, indicating that “ in intensive care beds, 24% of patients are in the private sector “.
Young people more and more affected
Another alarming fact: the increase in cases obviously affects the elderly but there is also an increase in cases among the youngest. According to the director of the Regional Health Agency “ Today, for example, in Paris among 20-30 year olds, we have more than 800 positive cases per 100,000. The alert threshold is 50. And above all, for three days […] these numbers increase very rapidly in the elderly “. And this is precisely what worries the health authorities, as Aurélien Rousseau reminds us: ” The passage between generations is what is our major concern “.
Up to 300 people a day could soon be hospitalized
While he had already alerted hospitals several days ago asking them to activate crisis devices such as the famous white plan, Aurélien Rousseau fears the massive arrival of new positive cases in hospitals. He warns ” we know what will happen in the next 15 days. […] We are going to have more serious cases ”. According to him, It is “without doubt up to 300 people per day in the coming days who will arrive in hospitals in Ile-de-France “.