Covid-19: Olivier Véran reassuring on the "very favorable" evolution, including in the South-West

Finally !

The figures for the Covid epidemic are currently experiencing a very favorable development, with an accentuation in the reduction of contamination.

“We are almost at -40% from one day to the next, from one week to the next,” declared Olivier Véran during a visit to Roland-Garros to attend the first implementation of the pass. sanitary.

"We are at some 6,000 cases diagnosed (every day, editor's note) now, the incidence rate is below 70 per 100,000 including in the regions in which we had alerted last week, New Aquitaine and some departments of Occitanie ”, added the Minister of Health.

“We are reaching figures that we have not seen since last summer.

This means that we have crossed the whole year with more contaminations and hospitalized patients than what we know today.

This is good news, we owe it in particular to vaccination, ”insisted Olivier Véran.

Referring to Wednesday's reopening (sports halls, indoor restaurants), he greeted “an important day for French gastronomy and commercial activity.

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