Public Health France indicates that the number of passages and hospitalizations in emergency rooms due to a suspicion of infection in COVID-19 increased by 37% for the adult public during the week of September 15 to 21.
According to the Sentinel Network, the incidence rate increases, from 38 to 48 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, while the autumn period is “conducive to the arrival of new viruses,” recalls General Damien Tomasso practitioner.
“Subject to the future data consolidation, this rate is increasing for the second consecutive week and is at a moderate level of activity,” said Public Health France.
A hybrid omicrona variant
Among the variants under surveillance, the variant “XFG”, nicknamed “Frankenstein”, particularly warns. This name, a famous cultural reference, comes from the very form of these variants that “are combinations, hard hybrids that vary omicron that has already been transmitted for several months,” explains General practitioner Damien Tomasso.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the XFG was designated as a variant of SARS-COV-2 under surveillance “whose proportion increases at a global scale.” Add: “The XFG is experiencing rapid growth compared to co-circulation variants worldwide.”
This variant is “capable of hybridizing more easily with human cells.” He is “much more contagious,” he emphasizes Damien Tomasso.
More contagious, no more dangerous
This variant has extended significantly to Asia in Avri and May, with a rapid increase, 2.5% of strains at 11%. In Canada and Europe, the variant is also progressing. “We have just over 25% of the presence of this variant today.”
If contagion is more important, to date, to date, there is no increase in severe cases or hospitalizations. “The data available in the XFG do not suggest additional risks for public health compared to other descending lines of OMICRON currently in circulation,” said.
Source: BFM TV
