Faced with the Covid-19 pandemic, the executive has experimented with various strategies depending on the health situation of the territory. In France, as in other European countries, the figures are checked daily to anticipate epidemic outbreaks and avoid a hospital catastrophe: number of cases, incidence rate, reproduction rate (or R), number of deaths. The curve of the number of people in intensive care worries every time it reaches new thresholds. After the strict confinement of the first wave, new sanitary measures were taken alternately: partial confinements, curfew, movement restrictions, mandatory use of masks, closure of restaurants, shops, schools, cultural places… The second and third wave will be followed by a fourth? Surveillance is reinforced while the number of contaminations increases. The French, whose daily lives are turned upside down, follow every speech by the President of the Republic and every press conference by the Prime Minister, broadcast live on BFMTV. The Covid-19 disease, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 acronym), is the cause of the largest global pandemic in a century. Appearing in 2019, this new virus first broke out in China before spreading throughout the world. Causing in particular respiratory symptoms that can be very severe, it quickly led to a saturation of intensive care units in hospitals. To avoid resorting to triaging patients and stem the number of deaths, most governments have been forced to clamp down and quarantine regions. In France, the confinement was decreed on March 17, 2020 by President Emmanuel Macron, a few weeks after Italy and Spain, also heavily affected by the epidemic. The WHO declared the state of a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The arrival of a second wave and then a third wave in 2021 regularly forces the government to take new measures. As vaccination is delayed, the virus mutates and some variants appear more contagious or more resistant. A race against time begins to stop the epidemic without paralyzing the economy.
Source: BFM TV
