Now is the time for lightness in the sunny streets of France, but let no one be mistaken.
Olivier Véran calls for "collective vigilance" this Tuesday morning.
The Minister of Health announces “2 to 4% of Delta variant” - until then called “Indian variant”, particularly active in England - detected in France.
This rate represents 50 to 150 new contaminations per day.
"You will say
it is still little
, but it was the English situation a few weeks ago", tempers the minister on the move.
Across the Channel, the spread of the variant prompted the one-month postponement of the last stage of British deconfinement on Monday.
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Detected in more than 70 countries, the Delta variant has become the majority in the United Kingdom where the Covid-19 epidemic is back in service.
This is being redeployed on an "ascending trajectory", comments Olivier Véran, despite a "vaccination coverage rate higher than ours" across the Channel, and "very low in terms of circulation of the virus".
If these “2 to 4%” of the Delta variant are not alarming for the time being, its spread could increase in France.
"We can expect it to become the majority in France in the long term, [but] the timing is impossible to determine," replied Sibylle Bernard-Stoecklin, of Public Health France on Friday.
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Optimism but vigilance, therefore, on the menu for this month of June.
"We are crushing the virus but we must certainly not give the Indian variant a hold so that it starts a new epidemic wave, insists Olivier Véran.
The example of our English neighbors should call on us again to prudence, courage and solidarity.
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