The government "
hopes
" that the situation on the front of the 5th wave of the Covid-19 epidemic "
will improve by
" Christmas, said government spokesman Gabriel Attal on Friday, judging that "
the efforts of the French
"pay off. Asked about RTL to know if he recommended a gauge at the family table for the end of year holidays, he confirmed that the government, for the time being, was not issuing this year "
no recommendation such as this one
". "
I do not know if there will be recommendations by (Christmas), we will also look at the epidemic situation
," he then said. "
What we still hope is that the situation will improve byhere there
", He said, stressing that the vaccination booster campaign" is
accelerating
".
In addition, "
we see that the French are careful, make efforts (...) Small precautions make the big difference
", he summed up, refusing to be in their "
infantilization
".
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To date, "
we see that the epidemic continues to gain ground but that its rate of increase tends to weaken (...): it has progressed by 60% from one week to the next. About ten days ago, then it went to 40%, today we are around 20%
”, detailed Gabriel Attal. The incidence rate is "
470 per 100,000 inhabitants, which means that we have passed the peak of the fourth wave, of the third wave, and that we are approaching the peak of the second wave, the one that had taken place. a year ago
", but"
fortunately, we have two to three times fewer people hospitalized today thanks to the vaccine
", he added, while refusing to predict when the peak of this 5th wave could be reached.
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Faced with the difficulties of access to vaccination appointments, he confirmed that "
8 million slots
" would be added "
by the beginning of January
" and that the date of January 15 from which a pass was maintained. health will be deactivated if the vaccine booster is not carried out seven months after the last dose.
More than 56,000 new cases of Covid-19 contamination have been detected in the past 24 hours and 13,363 Covid-19 patients are hospitalized, including nearly 2,500 in critical care, according to figures from Public Health France published on Thursday.