Covid-19: "Weak signals of epidemic recovery" in "certain Parisian hospitals"

As the scenario for a second wave of Covid-19 takes shape, Olivier Véran evokes this Thursday "weak signals of epidemic recovery" in "some Parisian hospitals". "This is why I ask the French to be particularly vigilant, active, there is no need for a decree to be vigilant, no need for a decree to be active against the virus", continued the Minister of Health, on France Inter, in reference to the decree that the government must soon take to impose the wearing of masks in closed public places.

Olivier Véran clarified that these were not "worrying" signals, but "signals of special attention". “We follow batteries of indicators, what I call weak signals of epidemic recovery, calls to SOS Doctors, the number of calls to the Samu, the number of hospital admissions and we assist in certain hospitals Parisians at weak signals of epidemic recovery ”, he detailed.

. @ OlivierVeran: "I have weak signals of epidemic recovery from Parisian hospitals" #Covid # epidemic @ LN_Roussel44 # le69inter pic.twitter.com/tnWbu9a4S8

In his interview of July 14, Emmanuel Macron had already mentioned "signs that the epidemic is still starting a little".

Mandatory wearing of a mask in Mayenne

Regarding the tests, Olivier Véran said that he had sent "1.5 million diagnostic prescriptions" to the Ile-de-France region, and authorized laboratory technicians to take samples to meet the increase in requests.

"There are a large number of Ile-de-France residents who want to go on vacation and who want to be tested before leaving, which means that there is a massive influx of people who have wanted to access the laboratories for a few days", underlined Olivier Véran.

There is therefore a “need for human resources, for arm, to make as many PCR tests (by swabs, Editor's note) as there are requests”. Roissy Airport is particularly capable of carrying up to "2,000 people per day," he says. And on their vacation spots, the French, "wherever they are, will have the opportunity to be tested", assured the Minister, who prefers "to convince" to make exams than to "compel".

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Olivier Véran also recalled that the situation in Mayenne is "problematic". "This is why we are massively increasing the capacity for testing on the territory", "This is why we asked the prefect of Mayenne to take a certain number of measures such as the obligation to wear a mask in public places without waiting the date of August 1, ”announced by the President of the Republic.

. @ OlivierVeran on the situation of the epidemic in France: "The situation in #Mayenne is problematic" @ LN_Roussel44 # le69inter pic.twitter.com/JxhgxomsTW