The flu epidemic continues to spread in France. It has now reached almost the entire metropolis, including the Ile de France, where it resumes following having fallen in early 2022, indicates March 16, the report provided by the Public Health Agency.
The past week has been marked by a “sharp increase in all influenza indicators” in mainland France, underlines the Public Health organization France, specifying that, now, ” all the regions metropolitan are affected by theepidemic, except Corsica ».
The whole metropolis is affected by the flu
This concerns the Paris region, which, hit early by the epidemic at the end of 2021, had experienced a drop at the start of the year and was no longer considered to be in an epidemic period. She went back there once more this week. Outside mainland France, Guyana is also affected by the flu epidemic, but the other departments are spared.
This rise in the flu is unusually late. In recent years, the peak of the epidemic measured by the consultation rate in relation to the number of inhabitants took place rather in February.
The flu had decreased during the confinements
Winter 2020-2021 was specific, cause containment measures once morest Covid-19. They had also made it possible to curb many other epidemics such as the flu virus. But the French, less affected than usual, are also less immunized at the collective level, which has led to a resumption of the epidemic this winter.
This remains, all the same, below the levels observed in 2019-2020, just before the Covid-19, and especially in 2018-2019 when the epidemic had been very intense.
The French marked by the pandemic
In recent months, on Objeko, we have had the opportunity many times to talk to you regarding the Covid pandemic. This unprecedented health crisis has marked the French and the French. From the spring of 2020, a first confinement has been decreed. Starting in China, the Covid-19 epidemic spread very quickly in Europe.
In stores, locals rushed into stores in anticipation of this moment. Panic was in people’s minds. the confinement was more or less well lived because some were in small apartments in town, others were in houses. The schools were closed and to move, you needed certificates. Caregivers were busy caring for the many sick people. Each evening, on the television news, a precise quantified assessment was given.
Restaurant owners and the event trades have suffered a lot from this crisis. Very generous aid has been given, it is partial unemployment. Emmanuel Macron, the President of the Republic had a formula, that of “whatever the cost”. Moreover, there have even been certain abuses and people pretended to be professionals and were able to touch aids that they should not have touched. A real scandal but checks have been carried out.
A key moment in this crisis was the arrival of vaccines. For several months, researchers worked to make a vaccine. It was Pfizer that was the first laboratory to develop the vaccine. Vaccination centers had to be organized with a priority system. Then, a health pass was put in place.
This made it possible to reopen restaurants and places of culture. Subsequently, the vaccination pass was put in place. Some people were once morest the vaccination pass and once morest vaccination in general. Demonstrations were organized at regular intervals. On social networks, many theses circulate which are sometimes false. It is not easy for citizens to obtain information on a daily basis. The generalist media with large newsrooms remain the most reliable for obtaining information in good conditions in France.
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