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Ten days after its implementation, the current containment, even lighter than that of spring 2020, seems to show the first effects.
Mobility data (collected by the Google search engine from its users) has fallen quite sharply in recent days, even if the country is not as slow as in November.
Another early indicator, the readings of the Obépine network, which measures the concentration of viruses in wastewater, attest to a decline over the past ten days.
Finally, the number of daily positive tests is also down slightly.
There are just over 33,000 new cases a day at the start of the week, while we were flirting with 40,000 at the very beginning of the month.
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In this context, the Institut Pasteur has just published new short-term projections on Tuesday.
For the first time since January, the new daily admissions to the hospital and to intensive care units should experience an inflection in the coming days.
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