In recent weeks, indicators of the Covid-19 epidemic in France suggest the exit of the tunnel.
Fewer positive cases, fewer serious cases, fewer deaths: across the country, the figures are encouraging optimism and the gradual lifting of restrictive measures.
Thus, the obligation to wear a mask at school was lifted in 12 additional departments on Monday, October 18, bringing the number of exempted territories to 79. At the beginning of the month, the Scientific Council even seriously considered stopping the sanitary pass by the end of the year.
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However, for the first time since mid-August, the incidence rate started to rise again last week, with an increase of 11%, according to figures from Public Health France, or 48.5 positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants. (against 43 at the end of last week).
The alert threshold, located at 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, has not been crossed, but it is approaching dangerously and around twenty departments
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