Key Points

In Week 15, virological surveillance indicators declined, but rates remained high nonetheless.

• Stability or a decline in incidence and positivity rates across all departments and age groups, except among those aged 65 and older, where an increase in the positivity rate was observed

• 99.2% of screened tests showed a profile consistent with the Omicron (D1) variant in S14. The BA.2 sublineage accounted for 98.9% of sequences in the Flash S14 survey

• Stabilization of emergency department visits for suspected COVID-19

• Stabilization of new hospitalizations; decline in new admissions to critical care for COVID-19