As the end of the year approaches, health signals are red.
Asked during the Grand Rendez-vous
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, the government spokesperson sounded the alarm, noting that “
the fifth wave is starting with lightning
” in France.
The increase in the number of cases, in one week, reached "
almost + 80%
", and the incidence rate rose from 100 to 164 in less than a week.
All these elements underline the vigor of the epidemic resumption.
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But France has strengths, according to Gabriel Attal: vaccination is more advanced than in many of our European neighbors and recalls are more dynamic.
"
The logic of the health pass is to place constraints on the unvaccinated, rather than on the vaccinated,
" he stressed, defending a tool deemed effective in the fight against the epidemic.
While contaminations are increasing, the government is tightening controls to ensure compliance with the health pass, said Gabriel Attal, with supporting figures. As Emmanuel Macron asked during his speech, at the beginning of the month, "
the checks have increased
": over the first four days of this week, "
there were nearly 70,000 checks of people and more than 4,300 checks of establishments receiving from the public
”. Numbers up "
102%
" compared to the same days the previous week, noted the spokesperson.
The health pass should also soon apply in ski resorts, which have just resumed their activity after a particularly difficult 2020-2021 season.
The pass is not, at present, compulsory: it will become so only if the national incidence rate exceeds the threshold of 200 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
“
Today, we are at 164 (per 100,000 inhabitants), so we will probably be there
,” commented Gabriel Attal.
"
Solutions will be found at the local level [...] so that it is implemented in the simplest possible way
", he added, arguing that the threshold of 200 will be exceeded "
in the coming days
" .
The situation in Guadeloupe is "unacceptable"
The executive, which has just dispatched security forces to Guadeloupe to support local authorities in the face of the violence, is also keeping an eye on the situation in this overseas territory. The situation "
is absolutely intolerable and unacceptable
", denounced Gabriel Attal. Last summer, “
a small minority used the vaccine and tried to convince Guadeloupe residents and caregivers not to be vaccinated [...]. Now, this small minority who blocked with words has radicalized,
”he said.
The first answer is first "
firmness
" and security.
Behind, a large part of the territory's caregivers have been vaccinated, and injections are also progressing within the general population, explained Gabriel Attal.
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In Guadeloupe, vaccination remains little advanced: 41.3% of eligible people have received at least one dose of vaccine, and less than four in ten people are fully vaccinated, as of November 18, according to Public Health France. Since the beginning of the month, only a few hundred people have received a first dose of the vaccine each day, compared to 1,000 during the summer. Vaccination coverage is more advanced among caregivers: 84% of Guadeloupe liberal have received at least one dose, and a little more than two-thirds of professionals working in nursing homes and long-term care units (USLD). These rates are certainly higher than in Martinique and Guyana, but lower in Réunion as well as in mainland France.
Much work must therefore still be done to convince the population of the usefulness of vaccination.
For its part, the government hopes to defuse the current crisis, by receiving local elected officials on Monday to discuss with them and "
move towards appeasement
".