The coronavirus continues to spread in France.
This Monday, October 19, more than eight months after the discovery of the first case in France, 13,243 new cases were detected, according to data from Public Health France and the Ministry of Health.
The day before, 29,837 people had tested positive.
Every Monday, the data is biased in particular because of the closure of laboratories during the weekend.
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146 individuals have died from Covid-19 in France since yesterday, bringing the toll to 33,623 victims.
7,978 new hospitalizations have been recorded in the last seven days, including 1,441 in intensive care.
The positivity rate has been rising steadily for several months: it peaks today at 13.4%.
1,775 “
clusters
”, or epidemiological foci, are being investigated, including 70 discovered in 24 hours.
88 departments are in a situation of high vulnerability.
What to remember from this Monday, October 19
This Monday marks the first weekday of the curfew, in Île-de-France and in eight metropolises where the virus is actively circulating.
The ban on driving between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. has been announced for four weeks, but the government wants to go through Parliament to increase it to six.
An exemption certificate is available online.
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The Ministry of Health has also paved the way for a wider deployment of antigenic tests, which are faster than RT-PCR virological tests, by issuing a decree that conditionally authorizes their reimbursement by Social Security for individuals presenting symptoms. .
Until now, these tests were only authorized as part of collective screening operations, people with symptoms were excluded, and their result had to be confirmed by an RT-PCR test.
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Finally, the virus would survive up to 9 hours on the skin, according to Japanese researchers.
The pathogen that causes influenza survives on the skin for about 1.8 hours, says the study published this month in the journal
Clinical Infectious Diseases
.
Hence the need to wash your hands frequently.