Table 2. Weekly variations of confirmed cases of COVID-19, positivity and hospital admissions rates, by metropolitan areas groups, France, 28 September–15 November 2020.

Characteristic			Week 40 28 Sep–4 Oct	Week 41 5 Oct–11 Oct	Week 42a 12 Oct–18 Oct	Week 43b 19 Oct–25 Oct	Week 44c 26 Oct–1 Nov	Week 45 2 Nov–8 Nov	Week 46 9 Nov–15 Nov
Confirmed cases per 100,000 inhabitants	Group 1a,c	Incidence rate	242.2	350.2	453.6	613.2	627.0	479.4	249.6
		W vs W − 1 (%)	NA	+ 44.6	+ 29.5	+ 35.2	+ 2.2	− 23.5	− 47.9
	Group 2b,c	Incidence rate	108.5	151.8	222.3	389.3	493.1	441.5	241.7
		W vs W − 1 (%)	NA	+ 39.9	+ 46.4	+ 75.1	+ 26.7	− 10.5	− 45.3
	Group 3c	Incidence rate	117.1	133.6	170.1	288.0	346.9	310.9	173.7
		W vs W − 1 (%)	NA	+ 14.2	+ 27,3	+ 69.3	+ 20.5	− 10.4	− 44.1
Test (RT− PCR) positivity	Group 1a,c	Rate (%)	13.6	16.8	17.9	22.4	23.7	22.2	17.6
		W vs W − 1 (%)	NA	+ 23.7	+ 6,4	+ 24,9	+ 5,9	− 6.3	− 20.6
	Group 2b,c	Rate (%)	7.5	9.6	11.5	15.9	18.9	18.9	15.0
		W vs W − 1 (%)	NA	+ 28.3	+ 20.4	+ 38.2	+ 18.5	− 0.2	− 20.3
	Group 3 c	Rate (%)	9.2	9.7	10.2	14.7	16.3	15.3	12.9
		W vs W − 1 (%)	NA	+ 4.8	+ 5.3	+ 44.3	+ 10.8	− 5.8	− 15.7
Hospital admissions per 100,000 inhabitants	Group 1a,c	Incidence rate	10.9	12.9	18.1	26.1	29.8	27.6	20.6
		W vs W − 1 (%)	NA	+ 18.6	+ 40.2	+ 44.1	+ 13.9	− 7.4	− 25.4
	Group 2b,c	Incidence rate	4.1	5.1	9.2	11.2	16.4	20.0	17.5
		W vs W − 1 (%)	NA	+ 25.9	+ 79.4	+ 21.3	+ 46.8	+ 22.2	− 12.7
	Group 3c	Incidence rate	3.3	4.1	5.4	7.7	10.3	10.0	9.5
		W vs W − 1 (%)	NA	+ 23.8	+ 33.3	+ 42.3	+ 32.4	− 2.0	− 5.2

COVID-19: coronavirus disease; NA: non-applicable (as outside the period of observation); W: week.

^a Group 1: curfew from 17 October.

^b Group 2: curfew from 24 October.

^c Group 1, 2, and 3: lockdown from 30 October.