Autumn is coming and, with it, the risk of seeing a new wave of Covid-19 looming.
The eighth in France.
For more than a week, contaminations have indeed been on the rise, exceeding 22,000 daily cases, when there were 16,000 on September 7.
And yet, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization was very optimistic this week, announcing that “
the world has never been in such a good position to end the pandemic
(…)
the number of weekly deaths has fallen to the lowest since March 2020.”
An improvement that also concerns France.
There are thus around thirty daily deaths, when there were around a hundred in mid-July.
In addition, hospital data are, for the moment, far from alarming with less than forty critical care admissions per day.
In the immediate future, it remains preferable to vaccinate people at risk
Vincent Enouf, Deputy Director of the CNR for Respiratory Infection Viruses at the Institut Pasteur in Paris
The current rebound is actually not surprising.
Contrary to what we have seen since December, it…
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