Towards the end of Covid-19 in Lyon? Hospitalizations fall: the latest figures
Through Theo Zuili
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While nightclubs will be allowed to reopen in Lyon from this Wednesday, it will again be possible to stand up during concerts, to consume at the bar, in stadiums, transport and cinemas, the Covid situation -19 is visibly improving in the Rhône.
The Hospices Civils de Lyon released the latest figures in their many hospitals on Tuesday.
The end of the peak in Lyon hospitals
It would seem that the Lyonnais are seeing the end of the tunnel for this unprecedented fifth Omicron wave. The number of contaminations continues to suffer in the metropolis of Lyon and Lyon hospitals are admitting fewer Covid-19 patients to their beds.
The data published this Tuesday by the Hospices Civils de Lyon are: 492 people are currently being cared for in Lyon hospitals compared to 558 on Tuesday February 8.
The number of patients admitted to intensive care has been falling since January 2022. 50 patients with severe forms occupy the 160 beds installed today, compared to 63 last Tuesday.
Contamination still down
While the government gives hope for an end to the vaccination pass by the end of March or the beginning of April, the incidence rate in the Rhône has fallen to 1,251 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
This, that is to say the number of new daily cases per 100,000 inhabitants on average over a rolling week, fell very sharply on February 11, 2022. It was a little below 2,200 per 100,000 inhabitants on February 5 against more than 4,600 on January 19, the peak of contamination in this fifth wave.
With more discharges from hospitalizations than admissions on February 14 (about 73 returns home for 62 hospitalizations), the fifth wave of Covid-19 seems to have ended its course in Lyon just in time for the reduction of health measures.
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