2023-09-26 07:00:00
Set up very soon for the monitoring of wastewater, the Sum’eau network is managed by Public Health France. Kletr – stock.adobe.com
DECRYPTION – The number of contaminations has no longer been counted daily since the end of June. But the virus remains under surveillance.
Autumn is coming, and with it its share of viruses, including Sars-CoV-2. But if it seems to be circulating more actively in recent weeks, it is impossible to compare it to previous waves. And for good reason: since the beginning of last summer, state services no longer report the results of PCR or antigen tests on a daily basis. The official counter stopped on June 26, with 1,167 positive cases (for a total of just over 40 million cases since spring 2020, the date the Sidep system was implemented). The figures for the number of hospitalizations, for their part, have not been published since March. « We have moved to a new stage, justifies Vincent Enouf, deputy director of the National Reference Center (CNR) for respiratory infection viruses at the Pasteur Institute, in Paris. We no longer need to know the number of contaminations on a case-by-case basis. One of the main issues for us is to know how Covid will evolve alongside…
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