“In recent days, the level of daily contaminations has not decreased” and the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic on the hospital system “remains major”.
Monday evening, the Director General of Health Jérôme Salomon warned: the risk of an epidemic rebound is now "high" in France, which poses a serious threat to the deconfinement of December 15.
But what about our neighbors?
The Parisian takes stock.
Incidence: generalized stagnation
After reaching a peak of more than 50,000, or even 60,000 cases on certain days at the end of October, this level decreased significantly in France, reaching 10,000 to 11,000 cases per day on average at the end of November.
But last week, this number remained around 10,000 per day, according to data from Public Health France.
A higher figure than in Spain (8,000 cases in the last 24 hours), where the curve continues to slowly decline.
In Portugal (3,800 daily cases), Switzerland (3,700) and Belgium (2,300), the incidence continues to stagnate.
But France is far from leading the European pack, with a much lower number of daily cases than in the United Kingdom (14,500), where the curve seems to be starting to rise again, as well as in Germany (16 900) and Italy (21,500), but where on the contrary the incidence continues to decrease.
Death: Germany worried, Italy at the highest
After a peak in daily deaths in mid-November (420), France has seen this level drop steadily in recent weeks, before stagnating at 300 deaths per day in early December.
Since then, this figure has resumed its decline, but in a much less significant way, with an average of 290 daily cases.
A higher figure than in Spain (225 cases per day on average), where the curve continues to stagnate after having significantly decreased over the past two weeks.
With 105 daily deaths on average, Belgium sees its level continue to decline, slowly but steadily.
Switzerland (97 deaths per day on average) and Portugal (76), for their part, seem to have reached a plateau over the past two weeks.
In Germany, by contrast, the number of daily deaths continues to climb, from 242 on November 24 to 391 deaths in the past 24 hours.
After peaking at 486 deaths at the end of November, the United Kingdom continues its slow decline in the number of deaths, with 425 cases in the last 24 hours.
On the side of Italy, our European neighbor currently the most bereaved on a daily basis, this figure is starting to decline, with 720 deaths per day, after a peak at 740 daily deaths.
Hospitalizations: declining trend, but ...
As of Monday, 26,365 Covid-19 patients were hospitalized throughout France, a figure that has risen again for two days after several weeks of decline.
If the most recent figures are still not available for our European neighbors, we can however observe that the drop in hospitalizations was noticeable and continued in November.
Thus, Belgium experienced a decline similar to that of France, going from 28.3 new hospitalizations per 100,000 inhabitants in the second week of November (26 for France) to 14 hospitalizations / 100,000 inhabitants in the last week of November ( 14 also in France).
In Spain, this figure even collapsed to 3 hospitalizations per 100,000 inhabitants in the last week of November, against 12.5 / 100,000 inhabitants from 9 to 15 November.
Finally, the United Kingdom experienced in November an equally continuous decline, but less marked than its European neighbors, from 18.5 hospitalizations / 100,000 inhabitants to 11 in the last week of November.
