THE QUESTION.
France has indeed entered the fourth wave of Covid-19.
Prime Minister Jean Castex announced Tuesday, July 20, 18,000 new positive cases for Covid-19 in 24 hours, an increase in coronavirus contaminations to the tune of 140% in the space of a week.
This exponential increase is due to the arrival of the Delta variant, which is becoming predominant throughout the territory.
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Faced with this sharp acceleration in contamination, the director of Paris hospitals, Martin Hirsch, expressed concern in the newspaper
Liberation.
New cases should not turn into hospitalizations, and currently, “
pre-hospital indicators are shifting upwards.
"If the transmission follows the same trajectory as that of last year, that is to say from the youngest to the elderly,"
we can fear the worst even though nearly half of the population is now vaccinated
», Warns the senior official.
According to him, the wave can be
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