The coronavirus epidemic is spreading in France.
4,070 new cases have been detected in the past 24 hours, Public Health France announced on Monday, September 28 in its daily press release.
As of Sunday, 11,123 cases had been detected.
81 people have died from Covid-19 in France since yesterday, bringing the total to 31,808 victims.
A total of 4,069 people have been hospitalized over the past seven days, including 780 in intensive care.
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The positivity rate has exploded for several weeks.
Today, it has reached 7.5%.
1,246 “
clusters
”, or epidemiological centers, are under investigation, including 16 discovered in 24 hours.
60 departments are in a highly vulnerable situation.
Remember that these data are subject to the traditional brake on the weekend, due to the many laboratory closures.
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A million dead in the world
The world officially crossed the one million dead mark on Sunday, September 27.
A number probably reached earlier, due to an underestimation in many countries.
China, in particular, has long been accused of lying about its numbers.
Doubts also persist about Brazil and India, where some regions and cities are less equipped with hospitals and laboratories.
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This week also marks a change in government doctrine, which has imposed several health restrictions in areas most affected by the virus.
In the Bouches-du-Rhône, restaurants and bars have been completely closed since Sunday evening.
In Paris, as in ten other cities, bars must close at 10 p.m.
Restaurants that do not serve "
alcohol without food
" are not affected, said the prefecture of police in the capital.
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However, despite persistent noises from the hallway, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran reversed any “
preventive
” re-
containment
before Christmas.
"
I plan myself day by day with my batteries of figures (...) in order to offer the French the safest path so (...) that they can spend family celebrations in good conditions.
It will not go through an early confinement of three weeks.
"Before specifying:"
we do not want to completely stop the economic, social, cultural, sporting, family life of the French.
This is why we take decisions which are adapted to the gravity of the moment
”and which are“
territorialized
”.
