The current wave of Covid-19, which began in early June, has continued to decline in recent days in mainland France, with contaminations and hospitalizations not considered at a high level, the public health agency announced on Friday.
From August 8 to 14, “the decrease in the circulation of SARS-CoV-2 continued with an improvement in epidemiological indicators in all metropolitan regions,” Public Health France summarized in a press release, on the occasion of its weekly report. .
As for the overseas territories, the situation is also improving except in Réunion, where the epidemic continues to progress.
Less than 1,000 people in intensive care
For the first time in several weeks, Public Health France did not consider contaminations and hospitalizations to remain at a “high” level. It is, therefore, in fact, the end of the current wave that had begun at the beginning of June and that caused a peak in hospitalizations at the end of July, surely at a lower level than that of the two previous waves, at the beginning of year. and in the spring.
This Thursday, 23,605 new cases had been identified, far from the more than 150,000 daily infections observed at the peak of the wave, and the number of patients in intensive care had fallen below the threshold of a thousand for the first time since the beginning of July.
Towards an epidemic peak at the beginning of the school year?
However, the public health agency maintains its recommendations regarding precautions, in particular encouraging always wearing the mask in transport. Several specialists call to avoid excessive relaxation, including the researcher Brigitte Autran, who has just been appointed head of the body that succeeds the Scientific Council.
“The most likely scenario is that of an epidemic peak at the beginning of the school year,” Brigitte Autran estimated this week in the parisian. “Will it be because of a new variant or because of the return of the cold? We are not fortune tellers, but it is almost certain that there will be a wave in the fall.”
Since the start of the pandemic, more than 150,000 people have died in France after being diagnosed with Covid.
Source: BFM TV
