The epidemic is progressing in a "dazzling" way, had recently warned the spokesman of the government, Gabriel Attal.
The figures confirm this Tuesday afternoon: "today, we will announce 30,000 cases of Covid-19 over the past 24 hours", announced the Minister of Health Olivier Véran to the National Assembly.
"Today, we will announce 30,000 cases of # Covid19 over 24 hours, this is a very significant increase which attests that we are in a fifth epidemic wave", says @olivierveran.
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Seven days ago, Public Health France recorded 19,778 new contaminations.
Over the last week, the number of cases was around 20,000 dailies, an average that had not been observed since mid-August.
The 30,000 mark was crossed on August 11, in the middle of the fourth wave, with 30,920 cases.
The national incidence rate is also progressing rapidly, reaching, for 20 November, nearly 191 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
The threshold of 100 cases per 100,000 inhabitants was crossed on November 12.
Europe on alert
Concern is mounting in Europe in the face of a resumption of the epidemic.
The continent "remains in the grip of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Last week, reported deaths from Covid-19 rose to nearly 4,200 per day, doubling from the 2,100 daily deaths recorded at the end of September, ”the World Organization warned. of Health.
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“Hospital beds can be expected to be under high or extreme pressure in 25 countries and high or extreme pressure in intensive care units in 49 out of 53 countries by March 1, 2022. “, She alerted in a statement.
For the WHO, the increase in cases in Europe is explained by the combination of the prevalence of the highly contagious Delta variant, insufficient vaccination coverage and the relaxation of anti-Covid measures.