Old Indicators of Epidemic Activity: incidence rate of the COVID-19 outbreak by metropolis

**Information of 20 May 2021** As of today, the indicators will be corrected in order to eliminate the double effect, when carrying out several tests by the same person. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the secure Si-DEP platform has recorded all the results of the tests. In order to guarantee the protection of the personal data of the persons tested, each result was linked to the issue of an anonymised pseudo. However, with the appearance of variants in the territory, some people are required to carry out two tests, so far counted twice. The algorithm used has therefore recently been updated so that it counts only one patient when tested several times in a short time interval, always respecting anonymity. Thanks to this new pseudonymisation, Santé publique France is able to increase its effectiveness and produce even more accurate data, which can be consulted weekly in its epidemiological point. ### Actions of Public Health France Public Health France’s mission is to improve and protect the health of populations. During the health crisis linked to the COVID-19 outbreak, Santé publique France is responsible for monitoring and understanding the dynamics of the epidemic, anticipating the various scenarios and putting in place actions to prevent and limit the transmission of this virus on national territory. ### The Tracking Information System (SI-DEP) The new Screening Information System (SI-DEP), which has been deployed since 13 May 2020, is a secure platform where the results of the testing laboratories (RT-PCR) carried out by all city and hospital laboratories for SARS-COV2 are systematically recorded. ### Description of data This dataset contains a file with: — The incidence rate of any age group for each metropolis; — The incidence rate for persons over 65 years of age for each metropolis; The incidence rate is the number of positive tests per 100,000 inhabitants over 7 slippery days. It shall be calculated as follows: (100000 * number of positive cases)/Population. Frequency of update of daily data.