The circulation of Covid-19 variants is increasing in France, according to the preliminary results of the latest flash survey, Professor Bruno Lina said on BFMTV on Thursday, February 4.
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The variants concern 14% of positive cases for coronavirus, according to the investigation dated January 26 and 27.
A traffic which increases but which is not “
explosive
”, according to the declarations of Bruno Lina.
"
It is linear and continuous
" he added to the microphone of BFM Lyon.
Bruno Lina specifies however that 20%, that is to say between 800 and 900, of the samples still have to be sequenced.
The final findings of the investigation will be made public later on Thursday.
In the last flash survey on January 7 and 8, the English variant only represented 3.3% of tests.
