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Covid-19: the epidemic recovery seems more intense on the coast

2021-07-15T18:01:09.492Z


FIG DATA - Analysis of wastewater provides a more precise idea of ​​the actual circulation of the virus in tourist areas.


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Our country is facing a strong resumption of the epidemic, which affects all territories, metropolitan as well as overseas

," warned Emmanuel Macron during his address to the French on July 12.

A situation linked, according to him, to the spread of the Delta variant of Covid-19, which has become the majority in the country and which has caused

"an increase in contaminations all over the world"

.

Read also: Covid-19: Delta variant, health pass, vaccination of caregivers ... What to remember from Macron's announcements

But French territory is not uniformly affected by this recovery.

If the virus still circulates relatively little in the country, the trend has been on the rise since the end of June in more than 30 agglomerations monitored by the Obépine Network (Epidemiological Observatory in Wastewater).

This observation is based on an early and above all geographically precise indicator of the circulation of the Sars-CoV-2 virus, developed by network researchers from the analysis of wastewater.

Indeed, the results obtained concern the entire population covered by each water treatment plant, without

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Source: lefigaro

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