Key Points

In Week 25 and at the regional level, COVID-19 syndromic surveillance indicators related to emergency care visits continued to decline in hospitals (Oscour® network emergency facilities) while they tended to stabilize in private practice (SOS Médecins associations).

Virological indicators continued to decline in all departments of the region, with incidence rates below 30 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, including 11 departments with rates below 20 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. Regarding variants of concern, community transmission clusters linked to the Delta variant were detected in Occitanie. Weekly numbers of new hospital admissions were decreasing in the region for week 25, as were the number of new cases in critical care units and the number of new episodes reported in long-term care facilities. Estimates of the R-value as of June 30 for Occitanie (data from SI-DEP, Oscour®, and SI-VIC) were significantly below 1.

Regarding all-cause mortality data, the weekly number of deaths across all age groups observed in week 24 continued to decline and was in line with expected values. The number of hospital deaths in week 25 was lower than in week 24 and compared to previous weeks.

Overall, in week 25 for the Occitanie region, the COVID-19 epidemic surveillance indicators continued to decline. Although this trend confirms the decline in viral circulation across most of the region, localized resurgences of the epidemic could occur given the effective lifting of public health restrictions, the spread of the Delta variant nationwide, and the still-insufficient level of vaccination coverage.