2023-09-07 18:49:47
On a bus in Paris, August 24, 2023. EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP
Four days after the start of the school year, the Covid-19 epidemic continues to progress slowly in France, without causing alarm among health experts or the authorities, but prompting increased calls for caution and respect. barrier gestures and social distancing in risky situations.
“We have symptoms, we wear a mask; we go to see a fragile person, we wear a mask; when you have Covid, it is better to stay at home and not go to work,” recalled Aurélien Rousseau on France 2 Tuesday September 5while ensuring that there was no question for the time being of “strengthen the protocol”.
The Minister of Health, however, indicated that the executive was ready to move forward, if the situation required it, with the autumn vaccination campaign for people with risk factors, the launch of which is currently scheduled for October 17. As in winter 2022-2023, it will be coupled with the flu vaccination campaign.
Fewer epidemic indicators
Vigilance is also dictated by the lower quality of epidemic indicators, particularly since the suspension of the Integrated Screening and Prevention Service on July 1. “We almost no longer carry out PCR tests for Covid, we do not systematically analyze wastewater, deplores Antoine Flahault, director of the Institute of Global Health in Geneva. We therefore only have a very blurred vision of reality. »
According to the weekly bulletin of Public Health France (SPF) dated September 5, “Actions for suspected Covid-19 continue to increase in all age groups for the SOS Médecins network”, one of the agency’s two reference sources for epidemic monitoring. SOS Médecins carried out 3,482 procedures for suspected Covid-19 during the thirty-fifth week of the year, from August 28 to September 3, an increase of 22% compared to the previous week. The number of visits to the emergency room for suspected Covid-19 remains stable (at 2,769, compared to 2,731 the previous week), according to the Oscour hospital emergency services network, the other key SPF indicator.
The Sentinelles network, which is based on feedback from 561 liberal doctors, evokes a ” huge increase “ cases of Covid-19 in the last three weeks, with an estimated incidence in weeks 35 to 65 cases per 100,000 inhabitantscompared to 50 cases the previous week and 20 during the first week of August.
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