Key Points

COVID-19

• The regional incidence rate was 375 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, decreasing for the first time since S33-2022. The positivity rate (19.4%) and the testing rate followed the same trend.

• The BA.5 sublineage of the Omicron variant accounted for nearly all sequencing results.

• Use of primary care and emergency services for “suspected COVID-19” was decreasing.

• The number of new hospitalizations and the number of new admissions to critical care units related to COVID-19 were decreasing. The number of in-hospital deaths remained stable.

• The total number of new COVID-19 cases reported by ESMS was decreasing.

Monkeypox

• From mid-May through October 25, 2022, 2,496 confirmed cases of monkeypox were recorded in Île-de-France (region of residence).