Health Monitoring in the Centre-Val de Loire Region. Update as of March 18, 2022.

Key Points

COVID-19

  • Incidence rate on the rise again after a decline over five consecutive weeks. This trend is observed across all age groups and all departments

  • Testing rates are rising across all age groups and in Indre-et-Loire

  • Positivity rates are rising in all departments and age groups, except among 0-9-year-olds, where rates have stabilized

  • Omicron variant is dominant (99.0% of interpretable sequences). The BA.2 sublineage became dominant in S09 (51%); in S10, it is estimated at 67%

  • Stabilization in emergency room visits for suspected COVID-19

  • New hospitalizations have stabilized, and new admissions to critical care have decreased

  • Stabilization in the number of COVID-19 cases in ESMS.

Bronchiolitis

  • 4th week outside the epidemic

  • In week 10, indicators related to bronchiolitis are rising in hospital emergency departments but remain at low levels.

Flu

  • 2nd week of the epidemic phase

  • In week 10, activity related to flu-like illnesses was on the rise in hospital emergency departments

Acute gastroenteritis

  • In week 10, activity related to gastroenteritis was on the rise in hospital emergency departments

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