MAINTENANCE – 200,000 cases were identified in France on Tuesday. For Professor Antoine Flahault who is asking for a “ventilation plan”, strict measures against the Covid, as in China, “seem disproportionate to Westerners”.
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 a “intention to have a national measure of obligation”, but advises wearing a mask “in closed spaces, where there are many people“. On Monday, Billtemporarily maintaining a monitoring and health safety system in the fight against Covid-19must be debated in the Assembly. Measures could be taken until “31 mars 2023“, like the health pass at the borders.
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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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