The Covid-19 epidemic has killed 25 people since Friday, July 10, bringing the total death toll to 30,029 since the start of the epidemic, the Directorate General of Health (DGS) announced on Monday July 13. The assessment in social and medico-social establishments (Ehpad), currently arrested at 10,476 dead, will be updated this Wednesday, July 15.
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- Appearance of potential new clusters
" The health authorities are particularly attentive to the appearance of potential clusters , linked in particular to private, family or festive gatherings during this summer period, and in particular on the eve of the national holiday ," said the DGS in a press release. " The virus continues to circulate on the territory, " she recalls. The public health agency France public health had noted last week a " new tendency to the increase of the circulation of the virus " in metropolitan France, and the authorities had called this Friday to " vigilance " vis-a-vis the risk of a second wave .
However, since Friday, the number of patients suffering from a severe form in intensive care has continued to decline, with 4 fewer patients for a total of 492. A total of 6,983 people are currently hospitalized for Covid-19 infection, with 68 new admissions recorded in 24 hours. Four regions receive 72% of patients hospitalized in intensive care: Ile-de-France, Grand-Est, Hauts-de-France (north) and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
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While it has been less than 1 at the national level in recent weeks, the number of people infected with a patient (called "effective reproduction", or "effective R", based on positive virological tests) in mainland France has increased to- above this bar. "Last week, in mainland France, this R was 1.05, slightly higher than 1 and up on the previous week , which goes in the direction of a tendency to increase the circulation of the virus " , declared to AFP Sophie Vaux, of Public health France (SpF).
- Massive screening in Mayenne
A massive Covid-19 screening plan will be launched this week on the Mayenne population, after an abnormal increase in the circulation of the virus in the department.
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“ We are going to test all Mayennais in stages. Next week, we will target the inhabitants of Laval and the neighboring commune of L'Huisserie, then the south of the department and at the end all of the Mayenne people, "announced the director general of the Regional Agency for the Pays de la Loire (ARS), Jean-Jacques Coiplet, during a videoconference.
Between June 25 and 30 in Mayenne, the number of new Covid-19 positive cases increased from 54 to 109 and then from 109 to 219 between June 30 and July 6. It is this doubling twice and in two weeks of the number of cases discovered that worries the authorities, suggesting that the circulation of the virus is more intense.
- Wearing a mandatory mask in confined spaces
The prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis took this Monday a decree obliging the wearing of the mask in closed places receiving the public in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine. This decision, taken on the recommendation of the Regional Health Agency (ARS), comes after the " inventory of several cases of positive tests " during " a screening operation conducted with children of the Anatole France school " on 10 July, explains the prefecture.
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With this decree signed on Monday, wearing a mask becomes compulsory in " any closed establishment open to the public, whether its activity is administrative or commercial ". This concerns in particular “ shops ”, “ town hall ”, “ public services ”, “ common areas of hotels ”.
- Nice: gatherings of more than 2,500 people prohibited
Nice will lower the maximum tonnage of authorized events to 2,500 people, against 5,000, until August 15, announced on Monday July 13, mayor LR Christian Estrosi, after meeting Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, who called everyone to be a “ citizen ” in front of the Covid-19.
" The irresponsibility of some questions the safety of everyone ," said Estrosi during a press briefing, after the controversy aroused by the compact crowd gathered on the Promenade des Anglais on Saturday July 11 for a free concert.
- A “relaxation” of behavior
Even if the circulation of Covid-19 is " controlled " in France, according to the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran declared last Friday to have noted "a relaxation of certain behaviors in certain situations, in all circles ".
" The French want to vacation, want to forget all that they have experienced during these months. (...) but there is one thing that they must not forget, it is the barrier gestures , "insisted the Minister, while the state of health emergency ended on Friday July 10.