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Covid-19: Attal hopes for "a relatively calm winter" even if the epidemic is regaining ground

2021-10-27T14:14:43.124Z


While a "slight but noticeable resumption of the epidemic" was confirmed by the government spokesperson at the end of the council of min


Government spokesman Gabriel Attal blew hot and cold this afternoon at the end of the Council of Ministers, as if torn between optimism and masked concern.

France can hope to spend "a relatively serene winter" thanks to its anti-Covid vaccination rate which allows "better control" of the virus, he assures, while confirming "a slight but sensitive resumption of the epidemic" across the country.

The "virus reproduction rate, that is to say the number of people an infected person in turn infects, (is) again above one", with 5,400 cases detected per day in average, ie "an increase of nearly 16% over a week", even if "we are starting from a low level", he added.

"We are monitoring this indicator [of hospitalizations] like milk on the fire and it is likely [that the increase will continue]", indicates Gabriel Attal in the introduction to his report of the Council of Ministers.

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The incidence rate, for his part, "once again exceeds 50 per 100,000 inhabitants at the national level and the alert threshold has been crossed in about forty departments", he added, linking these trends to the autumnal climate. .

At the hospital, "the number of hospitalized people and people in intensive care is now stable, it is no longer decreasing", and "the number of admissions is progressing again".

The vaccine booster is "essential and urgent"

However, underlined Gabriel Attal, "the vaccination coverage has something to make us optimistic: more than 80% of eligible French people are completely vaccinated".

It "allows us to hope for better control of the epidemic and even a relatively calm winter, because this vaccine protects very effectively and durably against serious forms", he argued.

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In this regard, he once again called on those over 65 and the most vulnerable to make their second recall, "essential and urgent".

Asked whether this third dose could become a condition in order to maintain a valid health pass, he repeated that the government would base itself on the recommendation that the health authorities will make in the matter "in the coming weeks".

This Wednesday, 2.6 million eligible French people, or 30%, received their injection, he said.

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In the world, Europe is the only continent where the health situation continues to deteriorate significantly.

The number of Covid-19 cases recorded each day has increased from week to week in almost all countries on the continent.

The increase is sometimes contained and starts from a fairly low level, as in France, but the trend is general: + 37% in Italy, + 50% in Germany and the Netherlands ... The two reasons most often mentioned are 'arrival of the cold season, conducive to contamination, because we meet more in closed places, and the decline in the effectiveness of vaccines over the months.

Source: leparis

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