(ANSA) - PARIS, NOVEMBER 29 - The specter of a ninth wave of Covid-19 stretches over France.
According to data from Santé Publique France, last Friday there were 48,629 new cases registered across the Alps against 33,177 cases the previous Friday, equal to an increase of 46%.
Over 4,500 hospitalizations in the last seven days.
"The famous R, the reproduction rate of Covid, has been higher than 1 for several days, this means that the incidence of the number of cases is increasing: we are at the beginning of a more or less exponential curve", virologist Pascal told Agence France Presse. Crépey, of the Ecole des hautes études de santé publique.
Several experts believe that "a ninth wave is forming in France and more generally in Europe, in Southeast Asia and in North America", explains for his part Antoine Flahault, the director of the global Institut en santé de l'Université de Genève.
According to the World Health Organization, the pandemic has caused 158,771 deaths in France and over 6.6 million deaths worldwide.
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