Like the rising tide munching on the beach, the Covid-19 epidemic covers the map of France in navy blue, municipality by municipality.
"The circulation of the virus has reached a very high level,
" Prime Minister Jean Castex stressed yesterday.
The number of new infected people reached 251 per 100,000 people over the last seven days, an increase of 40% compared to the previous week.
The reproduction rate (R) at 1.35 reflects a doubling of the number of cases every two weeks, added the head of government.
Hospital indicators are the ones that most alarm observers.
Nationally, resuscitation beds are more than 44% occupied by Covid patients, when the alert threshold is set at 30%.
The regional health agencies of Île-de-France, Hauts-de-France and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes have already requested that certain surgical operations be deprogrammed.
It is in this latter region that the hospital system is most
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