Four days after the start of the school year, the Covid-19 epidemic continues to progress slowly in France, without causing an alert among health experts or the authorities, but giving rise to reinforced 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 the 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 “reinforce the protocol”.
The Minister of Health however indicated that the executive was ready to move forward, if the situation required it, with the fall 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 1er July. “We hardly carry out PCR tests for Covid anymore, 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) as of September 5, “the acts for suspicion of 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 performed 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 emergency visits for suspected Covid-19 remains stable (at 2,769, against 2,731 the previous week), according to the network of hospital emergency services Oscour, the other key indicator of SPF.
The Sentinelles network, which is based on feedback from 561 independent doctors, evokes a ” huge increase “ cases of Covid-19 in the last three weeks, with an estimated incidence in week 35 to 65 cases per 100,000 inhabitantscompared to 50 cases the previous week and 20 in the first week of August.
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