(English translation from french) At the IHU Méditerranée Infection in Marseille, we have carried out 54,957 tests (29,613 patients) since the start of the COVID epidemic. Among those tested, 20,987 people were residents of Marseille. This means that 2.5% of the Marseille population has been screened since the start of the epidemic.
The Marseillais are therefore, by far, the population that has been the most tested in the world, much more than what has been reported in South Korea or Italy where currently, the number of samples has increased very dramatically.
In addition, among the 20,987 Marseillais tested, nearly 3,486 carried the virus, a rate of 16.6% positive.
This shows the usefulness of this screening. We tested Marseillais from all the boroughs in an equivalent manner, who have roughly comparable positivity rates. The number of deaths currently among patients living in Marseille is 26,
representing a mortality of 0.7% per COVID in positive patients and 30 deaths per million inhabitants.