The Covid-19 is not yet to be put in the history textbooks, but the epidemic seems to be heading towards its end.
All indicators are green: daily admissions to hospital or intensive care are down, as are the number of daily cases and mortality.
The number of new cases is expected to drop below 10,000 per day very soon, with 10,709 positive tests on May 25 (calculated on a rolling seven-day average) against nearly 17,000 a fortnight ago.
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Also on May 25, just under 140 people had been admitted to an intensive care unit;
they were still double more than two weeks ago.
There are now nearly 3,400 patients treated in these services, against almost 6,000 at the start of the month when confinement ended.
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"The decline in the epidemic has been faster than what our models suggested a month ago
," notes Simon Cauchemez, epidemiologist at the Institut Pasteur and member of the Scientific Council.
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