France's new COVID-19 infections start creeping up again

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France's new COVID-19 infections start creeping up again
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Publishing date: Mar 08, 2022 • 36 minutes ago

PARIS — French health authorities reported 93,050 new COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, the highest daily total since Feb 22, and an increase of 16.6% versus a week ago.

The number of new daily infections has now shown a week-oneweek rise for the fourth consecutive day, reversing a declining trend that started end January...

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Covid-19: Olivier Véran warns of a “rebound” in the epidemic

Traveling to Isère, the Minister of Health highlighted the need for fragile people to “continue to protect themselves”, while maintaining the end of the vaccination pass and the mask on March 14.

By Le Parisien with AFP
March 11, 2022 at 1:56 p.m.

A shudder urging the greatest caution: the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, reported this Friday on a "rebound" in the Covid-19 epidemic , highlighting the need for fragile people to "continue to protect themselves”.

"We are currently seeing a rebound, in France, in the countries around us, that is to say that the Covid-19 is no longer falling, it is even increasing," said the minister during a trip to Isère. "Given the latest figures from yesterday, it's a 20% increase," he said, as China reconfigures .

The number of new positive cases rose Thursday evening to 74,818 , according to Public Health France, against 60,225 a week ago. "On the other hand, the hospital load continues to drop, but the pace of this decrease has started to slow down, so we are extremely vigilant," continued Olivier Véran.

Maintenance of the end of the vaccination pass

The critical care services, where the most seriously affected people are treated, received 1,928 Covid-19 patients on Thursday (including 121 who arrived in the last 24 hours), compared to 1,962 on Wednesday and 2,231 the previous Thursday.

“We will be on Monday in the objectives that we had set ourselves, so there is no difficulty in going to the end of the process of the end of the vaccination pass and the end of the mask , except in transport”, declared the health Minister.

Three days before this deadline, these objectives are however far from being achieved since Mr. Véran had mentioned in mid-February, before the senators, a passage below the threshold of 1,500 patients in intensive care as well as a situation where the epidemic ceases "permanently" to progress.

Protect the most vulnerable

In any case, the current rebound “highlights”, according to him, “the need for fragile people to continue to protect themselves” and to wear the mask.

In view of the decline which had begun for several days on the health front, Prime Minister Jean Castex had announced at the beginning of the month the end of the wearing of the mask and the suspension of the vaccination pass, from March 14.

Asked about the interest of offering a fourth dose of vaccine, Olivier Véran recalled having seized the High Authority for Health (HAS) on the subject.

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Covid: what to remember from the latest opinion of the scientific council

The scientific council believes that the rebound in the Covid-19 epidemic observed in recent days is linked to several factors. He insists on the importance of the conservation of protective measures, in particular for the most fragile.

Mathis Thomas
Written on 03/16/2022

“ The epidemic is not over! ” In a new “alert note” issued on Friday March 11, the scientific council , the body responsible for advising the government on the evolution of the Covid-19 epidemic , lists several recommendations in the face of the epidemic rebound of Covid-19. 19 underway in France.

A rebound in the epidemic, several factors

Since Monday, laboratories have recorded 116,618 positive cases in the territory. The daily seven-day average had risen to more than 60,000 cases since last Friday. To explain this renewed contamination, the Scientific Council evokes several factors.

- The relaxation of the population;
- The impact of the Omicron BA.2 sub-variant;
- The winter climate;
- Back to school;
- The decline of immunity.

Sub variant BA.2 now majority in France

“ From now on, more than 50% of new contaminations are due to the sub-variant of Omicron BA.2 ”, recalls the scientific council. More transmissible than the original BA.1 strain (+30%, according to data from the scientific council), but less dangerous, this new sub-variant is now the majority in France.

However, according to the latest projections from the Pasteur Institute , this epidemic rebound should not last, provided that the protective measures do not drop too much.

Protect the elderly or frail

Among the other measures recommended by the scientific council emphasizes the need to maintain “ protective measures for the oldest, fragile and immunocompromised ”.
Since Monday March 14, the fourth dose of anti-Covid vaccine has been open to people over 80 and to fragile people. The scientific council recommends favoring this booster dose from the age of 65.

For patients at risk and tested positive for Covid-19, the body recommends “ facilitating early access to treatment with oral Paxlovid, even if they are vaccinated ”. This antiviral makes it possible to limit the serious forms of the disease.

https://www.allodocteurs.fr/covid-ce-quil-faut-retenir-du-dernier-avis-du-conseil-scientifique-32608.html

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COVID-19: HOW TO EXPLAIN THE RESUMPTION OF THE EPIDEMIC IN FRANCE

Alain Ducardonnet with Hugo Septier
the 03/21/2022 at 10:31

Since the abandonment of the vaccination pass and the indoor mask a week ago, contamination has increased by 36% in the country.

An inevitable epidemic recovery? Only one week after the end of the indoor mask and the health pass in France, certain Covid-19 indicators are worrying . According to the health authorities, the daily average of contaminations over seven days, which smoothes the daily jolts, is up sharply with 89,002 cases this Sunday, against 86,022 on Saturday and 65,251 a week ago, a national increase of 36%. .

At the same time, the number of people hospitalized for Covid-19 continues to decrease over a week, with 20,566 patients concerned on Sunday against 20,917 a week earlier.

In the field, this increase in contamination is noticed by health professionals. On BFMTV, Sabine Yazbeck, pharmacist in Nice, recalls that "for a month, we had almost no more positives, we had one or two a week. "There, we went back to two or three a day", she notes.

“We currently have 10 Covid beds in the hospital, they are almost constantly occupied”, explains on our antenna the doctor Matteo Vassallo, head of the infectiology department of the Cannes hospital center.

Several factors may come into play to explain this recovery. Initially, if the government had indeed indicated March 14 as the deadline for the lifting of several coercive health measures , it is likely that the French anticipated these and proceeded with a relaxation a few days earlier, including in places in interior where the mask was still imposed.

The start of the school year, in particular in zone B, which corresponds to the regions where the incidence is highest in the country, may also have had a role. In these areas, the return of Covid-19 is to be combined with that of the flu , the incidence of which is also increasing. As a reminder, the vaccination of children against Covid-19 is only 5% nationally.

This resumption of contamination is also explained by the contagiousness of the BA.2 variant of Omicron . This is slightly more contagious than the BA.1 variant but has the same severity, and current vaccination coverage remains effective against it.

With regard to immunization, the focus should be on the most vulnerable French people, including immunocompromised people, who have pathologies, the elderly or who are at the end of their immunity.

The High Authority for Health (HAS) has proposed a fourth dose of vaccination accepted by the government for patients over 80 or who are in nursing homes. A request has been filed by this same authority to extend this booster dose to over 65s suffering from poly-pathologies.

The Vigilant Government

Did the government move too quickly in accepting the end of the indoor mask? The scientific body is divided on the question and, if some like Professor Gilles Pialoux evoke a "political decision" , others insist on the psychological side of this measure.

For them, it is likely that, as is the case with the flu, we are heading towards a cyclical return of Covid-19 with an annual rise during the winter months.

"Projections from the Pasteur Institute suggest that the hospital wave will be modest. With about half of the population having already encountered Omicron. In fact, the acquired immunity of the population is sufficient to protect the vast majority against the serious forms of the disease", confirms on BFMTV the doctor Bruno Megarbane, head of the intensive care unit at the Lariboisière hospital in Paris.

In an interview with Le Parisien , the Minister of Health Olivier Véran denies having taken early decisions motivated by the upcoming arrival of the presidential election.

"If a new variant threatened us, we would act immediately, presidential election or not!", He assures, also referring to the BA.2 variant, "very contagious." Still according to the minister, a decline is to be expected for "April."

“For two years, the government has always taken firm decisions when they were necessary”, argued meanwhile the leader of the LREM deputies Christophe Castaner on BFMTV-RMC this Monday morning.

https://www.bfmtv.com/sante/covid-19-comment-expliquer-la-reprise-de-l-epidemie-en-france_AV-202203210223.html

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Covid-19: recontaminations can occur after "a month or a month and a half", according to the union of biologists

According to François Blanchecotte, president of the Syndicat des biologistes, said on Monday on franceinfo to observe "a high contamination rate and a strong positivity rate" when there are an average of 130,000 cases of Covid-19 per day over a week.

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Posted on 03/28/2022 19:22
Update on 03/28/2022 19:34

We observe recontaminations with Covid-19 after "a month or a month and a half" , explained on franceinfo Monday March 28 François Blanchecotte, president of the Syndicate of biologists, while according to Philippe Besset, the president of the Federation of pharmaceutical unions in France, "one in three tests is positive" . Public Health France recorded an average of 130,000 cases of Covid-19 per day last week.

franceinfo: Do you also observe that one in three tests is positive?

François Blanchecotte: Absolutely. We are almost one in three positive tests, with 3 million PCRs done over the last week. So we have high rates of contamination and positivity. We are in phases which correspond to the fourth wave where we had positive tests regularly. These are symptomatic people. These are recontaminations, people who have made Omicron waves and who today contaminate themselves with the [variant] BA.2.

What is the time between recontaminations?

There are people who were infected a month or a month and a half ago and who are recontaminated. It is often with the children, the family and in nursing homes. The clusters that we discover are 57% in nursing homes and medical establishments with disabled people at 14%. In companies, we are at 8% and in nurseries at 10%.

Have the symptoms changed?

Many people tell us of quite long, very violent headaches, which immobilize them for several days. That's why there are stops from a certain number of personnel, which are not easy to control. It is difficult to have recruitment and we have staff that we are lacking.

What is the profile of the people who come to the laboratories?

We have people between 10 and 49 years old. This is the vast majority of recontaminations. The screening rate per 100,000 inhabitants in some categories exceeds 3,000.

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“The peak has been reached but the Covid-19 epidemic is not over”, confirms Olivier Véran

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Writing Published on 04/07/2022 at 08:35, updated on 04/07/2022 at 08:36

Guest of RTL this morning, Olivier Véran confirmed the trend observed in recent days on the front of the Covid-19 epidemic: the epidemic recovery observed since the beginning of March has reached its “peak” and is beginning to ebb.

“It has been falling for 5 days. The peak of the epidemic rebound has been reached. But the epidemic is not over ,” said the Minister of Health.

This beginning of a decline marks a break with the clear recovery observed in March, during which contamination almost tripled. A "rebound" anticipated by the authorities: the Minister of Health Olivier Véran had mentioned three weeks ago a peak at "120,000-150,000 contaminations per day" for "the end of March".

With 161,950 positive cases recorded in 24 hours by Public Health France, the average for the last seven days stands at 134,991, after having exceeded 140,000 on Friday.

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"I'm not saying that the epidemic is behind us" , insisted Olivier Véran, while the number of people hospitalized positive for the coronavirus continues to increase, according to daily figures published on Wednesday.

The Institut Pasteur "anticipates a plateau in the coming days" according to its projections updated on Monday.

The 4th dose open to 60 years and over
The Minister of Health has also opened up the possibility of being injected with a second booster dose (known as the "4th dose") for people over 60. “It is not an obligation”, clarified Olivier Véran.

European Union health authorities had given the green light on Wednesday to a second booster dose of Moderna and Pfizer's Covid vaccines for people aged 80 and over, but deemed it premature to issue a recommendation for the older population. young. For adults under the age of 60 with normal immune systems, there is currently "no conclusive evidence" that vaccine protection against serious diseases diminishes and that a fourth dose has added value, the institutions concluded. .

https://www.nicematin.com/sante/le-pic-est-atteint-mais-lepidemie-de-covid-19-nest-pas-terminee-confirme-olivier-veran-758716

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Covid: the number of positive cases is rising again for the first time in France for weeks

The number of new positive cases for Covid-19 is on the rise again in France.The number of new positive cases for Covid-19 is on the rise again in France.

Published on 06/03/2022 at 11:46 , update at 11:47

It has been four consecutive days that the number of people positive for Covid-19 has increased compared to last week. A change in trend to watch, after several consecutive weeks of decline.

After weeks of decline, the Covid had almost managed to be forgotten. But the numbers seem to remind us of reality this Friday, June 3. It has been four days since the number of contaminations in 24 hours has increased compared to the previous week.

Over 7 days, the increase represents 19.5% of additional cases, indicates Public Health France , which reports an average of 25,365 new cases in 24 hours to June 2.

Increase over four consecutive days

Since Wednesday, the number of cases seems to be starting to rise sharply, as Nicolas Berrod, journalist specializing in Covid-related issues for Le Parisien, pointed out on Twitter. “26,144 positive cases were identified in 24 hours, +19% compared to last Wednesday (22,006)”, he indicates for the day of Wednesday June 1. The day before, Tuesday May 31 "we were at +10% and +7% " for Monday May 30, he wrote.

This first tweet, dated two days ago, therefore initiated a trend that seems to be confirmed. This Friday, June 3, the Parisian even evokes the "beginning of an epidemic rebound" , the magnitude of which is "impossible to predict" , which "is observed in a very large part of the country".

Increase in detection of BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants

While on Wednesday June 1, the BA.4 and BA.5 variants, which spread faster than BA.2 represented 12% of daily cases, they represent 20% this Friday.

For Professor Mahmoud Zurreik, also interviewed by Le Parisien, these variants are “insufficient to fully explain this rebound, but they surely contribute to it”.

The trend of the increase in these sub-variants of Omicron is also underlined in the last weekly update from Public Health France , which thus notes "the increase in certain sub-lineages of Omicron including BA.4 and BA.5 ".

In this weekly epidemiological update, the indicators still show a downward trend, but this Friday, SPF notes that "the circulation of Sars-CoV-2 decreased less markedly compared to previous weeks". A situation to watch.

https://www.midilibre.fr/2022/06/03/covid-depuis-lundi-le-nombre-de-cas-positifs-est-en-hausse-pour-la-premiere-fois-depuis-des-semaines-10335994.php

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Covid-19: the epidemic again worries the health authorities

Posted on 06/20/2022 22:58

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Monday, June 20, in France, the Covid-19 epidemic is beginning to worry the health authorities again, as explained by journalist and doctor Damien Mascret , present on the 20 Hours set. "It is to be taken seriously. First, because the rise is still quite clear: we have gone in one week to around + 50% of cases. (...) Then, because it is drawn by the BA-4, BA-5 variant of Omicron, and these are variants that have just caused significant excess mortality in Portugal."

Few people eligible for the second booster did so

Damien Mascret goes on to explain that this increase is worrying because , in France, "among those over 60, who are eligible for the second booster, this fourth dose [of the vaccine], there are currently only 29% of people who have done it" . "The sixth wave is now," says Damien Mascret , adding that hospitalizations have risen 22.7% over the past week.

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/sante/maladie/coronavirus/vaccin/covid-19-l-epidemie-inquiete-a-nouveau-les-autorites-sanitaires_5211232.html

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Covid-19: the number of positive cases explodes in Île-de-France

Reported to the population, the number of positive cases in Île-de France is the highest in France. The virus is actively circulating in Paris and in the Hauts-de-Seine in particular.


By Camille Ducrocq
Published onJun 28 '22 at 5:20 PM

Covid-19 contaminations have been on the rise since mid-June , more than 70,000 positive cases are detected per day in France, as of June 28, 2022. France is facing a 7th wave , quite worrying according to the health authorities. While all metropolitan areas and all age groups are affected, Île-de France , in particular Paris and Hauts-de-Seine , is particularly affected.


The virus is actively circulating in the region

According to figures communicated on June 24 by Public Health France, the incidence rate in the region reached, in one week, 907 cases per 100,000 inhabitants , against 693 per 100,000 inhabitants at the national level. It even exceeded 1,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the departments of Hauts-de-Seine and Paris.

Reported to the population, the number of positive cases in Île-de France is therefore the highest in France.
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The incidence rate in Île-de-France has quintupled in less than a month, almost reaching the symbolic bar of 1,000 (1,400 at the peak of the previous wave with BA.2). #Covid19


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Contagious sub-variants

This 7th wave of Covid-19 is carried by new sub-variants of the Omicron family , BA.4 and especially BA.5, which are more contagious than the previous ones.

Faced with this situation, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne brought together, this Tuesday afternoon, June 28, the prefects and directors of ARS by videoconference to discuss the epidemic situation in France. A series of recommendations for the coming weeks will be issued at the end of this meeting, which began at 3 p.m., said the entourage of the Prime Minister to AFP .

The day before, the Minister of Health Brigitte Bourguignon, invited to the microphone RTL , asked "the French to put the mask back on transport", out of good citizenship. She also relaunched her call for a fourth dose for the over 60s and immunocompromised people in particular.

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Covid-19: the peak of the seventh wave of the epidemic is expected for the end of July

Published on 03/07/2022 10:30
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The number of positive cases for Covid-19 is expected to increase further in France throughout the month of July.

France has to deal with the resumption of the Covid-19 epidemic at the start of the summer period. “Currently, there is a very strong increase in the number of cases (of contamination) . On average, every day, there are 100,000 cases” , explains Mahmoud Zureik, professor of epidemiology, Saturday July 2. The number of hospitalizations is also on the rise. "We are also starting to see an increase in the number of intensive care admissions," he said. For the moment, the deaths are not more numerous.

"B A.4 and B A.5 represent more than 75% of the variants"
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“The president of the Scientific Council, Jean-François Delfraissy, said that the peak will be around the end of July. This means that the number of cases will increase more and more” , indicates Mahmoud Zureik. "BA.4 and BA.5 represent more than 75% of the variants (of the cases of contamination) " , he continues. "With the increase in the number of cases, there will also be sick leave for health professionals with Covid" , warns the professor of epidemiology.

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Covid-19 in France: more than 200,000 positive cases in 24 hours, announces François Braun

By SudOuest.fr with AFP
Published on 07/05/2022 at 4:12 p.m.
Updated on 07/05/2022 at 4:15 p.m.

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The number of Covid 19 contaminations “should slightly exceed 200,000” over the last 24 hours , announced this Tuesday, July 5, the Minister of Health François Braun, during a hearing at the National Assembly.
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The seventh epidemic wave "is increasing in recent days" and "we are registering around 120,000 cases (per day) on average this past week, with the number of cases expected to slightly exceed 200,000 this evening", said François Braun opening a discussion on the “health monitoring and security” bill.

What will be the impact of the 7th wave?

The impact of the seventh wave of Covid on hospitalizations and deaths remains uncertain, against a backdrop of a "weakened" hospital, and "we must expect new waves", observes the Scientific Council in an opinion published shortly before the examination of the new “health security” bill. "The Covid-19 pandemic is not over", underlines the Council in its analysis of the wave associated with the BA.4/BA.5 sub-variants of Omicron and the bill, transmitted to the government on June 23 but made public only on Monday evening. The seventh wave started at the end of May in France.

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