Professor Antoine Flahault is an epidemiologist and director of the Institute of Global Health at the University of Geneva.
For a seventh wave, the Covid-19 reminds us.
On Tuesday, its contamination rate exploded and reached 200,000 daily cases.
A first for three months.
If most of the restrictions have fallen, the authorities advise, for example, wearing a mask in public transport.
Until the Prime Minister who denies an "
intention to have a national measure of obligation",
but advises the wearing of a mask "
in closed spaces, where there are a lot of people
".
On Monday, the bill “
now provisionally maintaining a monitoring and health security system in the fight against Covid-19
” must be debated in the Assembly.
Measures could be taken until "
March 31, 2023
“, like the health pass at the borders.
LE FIGARO. - How to explain the significant increase in the number of cases reaching 200,000 with more than 1,000 hospitalizations in critical care?
Antoine FLAHAUT. -
The BA.5 sub-variant is very transmissible, including during the summer, and caused a wave of amplitude as strong as that of BA.1-BA.2 this winter in Portugal, a very well vaccinated country.
So this subvariant is also associated with strong immune escape.
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