For a few days now, the number of positive cases of Covid-19 in France has increased slightly. “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.
And a few days after this declaration, the resumption of the epidemic is felt. “We have gone from an average of five to ten daily tests in August to more like twenty or thirty since the beginning of September,” explains Éric Myon, a pharmacist in Paris, to the microphone of BFMTV.
A still limited level of circulation.
And in his establishment as in the rest of the country, positivity is above 10%. As of September 10, the incidence rate (number of cases per week per 100,000 inhabitants) was 186, “high and rising” according to Covid-Tracker. In the vast majority of departments in metropolitan France, the incidence rate is between 150 and 500.
After a sharp drop since mid-July, the incidence rate is leveling off. The number of registered cases has even risen slightly in recent days, although we remain far from the levels reached in July and the beginning of the year.
The slight rebound in the epidemic thus seems to be favored by a social context more conducive to the circulation of the virus. “There was the return to school, the return to work, the gestation of the end of the holidays, we are heading for a bad season with shorter days and lower temperatures that make us go deeper,” recalls the epidemiologist Mircea Sofonea.
So, to avoid a new violent wave of Covid-19, health professionals recommend carefully respecting barrier gestures again.
Source: BFM TV
