This threshold had not been exceeded since last July. Over a rolling week, 57,952 new cases were confirmed as of December 6.
It hadn’t happened since July 19. More than 100,000 new cases of Covid-19 (105,516) were confirmed on Tuesday December 6 in France, a first since this summer. “Unlike the last waves, there is no summer to slow the progression of the virus», recalled Tuesday, December 6 for Le Figaro Martin Blachier, epidemiologist and public health physician.
Nevertheless, the daily raw figures do not make it possible to understand the epidemic dynamics. They are based on many variables such as the number of tests carried out. As a reminder, the data communicated one day corresponds to the number of cases confirmed the day before. The seven-day smoothed average – which therefore makes it possible to compensate for the days when fewer tests were carried out – is up 3.49% over one day (55,995 on December 5 against 57,952 on December 6). ).
In hospitals, the main variable used by the government to impose or not impose restrictive measures, the number of people in intensive care or intensive care increases very little (1,120 on December 6 against 1,114 on December 5). Hospital pressure from Covid-19 on intensive care capacity also remains almost stable (22.02% on December 5 and 22.14% on December 6). A number “very tolerable for the healthcare system», explained Tuesday, December 6 the infectious disease specialist Anne-Claude Crémieux at Figaro .
Faced with this situation, coupled with an unprecedented triple epidemic (Covid-19, influenza and bronchiolitis), the government is urging the population to wear masks again on public transport. This Wednesday morning, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne nevertheless again showed herself unfavorable to the return of the obligation to wear a mask. “Everyone has to be responsible», she said on RTL.
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