In the Landes, the Delta variant, formerly called the “Indian” variant, worries the health authorities.
A real "hunt in the most determined way possible" is being carried out in the southwest of the country, said Olivier Véran this Sunday noon on BFMTV.
This close monitoring reflects a “level of vigilance”.
But the Minister of Health does not want to be alarmist so far.
The situation is "not at all the same as in Great Britain," he assures us.
“There is no extension of the epidemic but of clusters.
The teams on site are doing real work of investigation to trace the chains of contamination.
But we are not in a community broadcast, ”he said.
“No major concerns” at this stage therefore.
Twenty-nine additional cases of the Delta variant, identified for the first time in India in April, have been identified in the Landes since the announcement on Wednesday of the first two cases in a family in this department, the prefecture and the Agency said on Saturday. regional health (ARS) in a press release.
About fifteen sources of contamination
To these 31 proven cases, the ARS adds "about twenty others" on the basis of an estimate because "the positive cases for Covid-19 did not all give rise to the use of the sequencing method allowing to 'identify the variant' Delta.
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This fifty or so cases in total, proven or "estimated", can be "grouped within fifteen sources of contamination", especially family, explains the ARS, "subject to the results of investigations still underway to cross data and tracing the chains of contamination ”.
The 31 proven cases concern 6 communities of municipalities, adds the ARS in its press release published on Friday evening.