“We are going to have an eighth wave,” Health Minister François Braun warned on Friday at BFM Marseille, speaking of a “stable” situation for the time being. However, data recently compiled by Public Health France (SPF) shows a slight uptick in the number of cases that have tested positive.
In the last seven days, SPF has recorded a 27.4% increase in new confirmed cases of Covid-19 in France, while this figure has been falling in recent weeks. On Sunday, the organization wrote that 16,422 new cases had been detected in the last 24 hours.
a journalist from Parisian It also points out that Sunday is the fifth consecutive day with a higher number of daily positive cases than those registered the previous week.
The Government “extremely attentive to the possible evolution of this epidemic”
The incidence rate is also recorded 0.6% in the last seven days, when it had been declining since the beginning of July: it was 173 on September 8, compared to 166 on September 4. The R0 remains stable (0.9) for a week and the positivity rate decreases (-6.6% as of September 8, in the last seven days).
Therefore, this rebound remains slight for the time being, especially because on the side of hospitalizations and resuscitations the decline continues, although it seems that it is stabilizing. The number of critical care admissions for Covid-19 was thus 44 on September 9, 45 on September 2.
If it is with these characteristics that a new wave usually begins, it is difficult at the moment to predict what will happen in the coming days. François Braun assured that the government is “extremely attentive to the evolution, the stability for the moment, but the potential evolution of this epidemic, so that we can react as soon as we have signs of recovery.”
Source: BFM TV
