Will the long-awaited summer vacation of the French be spoiled by the arrival of the Delta variant?
In any case, this is what the Minister of Health fears.
Traveling in a shopping center in Villeneuve-la-Garenne in Hauts-de-Seine (92), Olivier Véran reported a possible resumption of the epidemic in the coming days.
The Delta variant represents a third of positive cases in France
“I'm not quite sure we have time to wait until September or October.
I think there is a potential threat of epidemic resumption as early as this summer, which is what we have seen in England with over 20,000 cases diagnosed per day.
This is what we are seeing in Portugal, it is a variant which is very contagious ”, alerted the minister at the microphone of our colleagues from BFMTV.
The minister stressed that the number of people protected was still very insufficient, inviting the French to be vaccinated as soon as possible.
“We can and must do more because the threat of the Delta Variant is real and could spoil our vacation,” he said.
The Delta variant, “represents nearly a third of positive cases already in our country and it has increased in absolute value by nearly 75% in one week.
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Another concern, the incidence rate which has "stopped falling" with "nearly 1,800 cases of positive diagnoses per day", according to the deaths of government spokesman Gabriel Attal, who explained that vaccination centers will be deployed on the French resorts to counter the epidemic.