2023-08-11 19:25:46
Home Health Disease Covid-19
Published on 08/11/2023 21:25
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FRANCE 3 Article written by France 3 – S. Guillaumin, C. Tomaso, T. Imbert, B. Rouch, F. Hénaut, L. Houel
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For the past two weeks, the number of Covid-19 contaminations has been on the rise. A new variant is implicated. Is it dangerous ? Response elements.
For two weeks, the request for antigenic tests has resumed in a pharmacy in Montpellier (Hérault). The pharmacist says to make some “regarding ten a day. Occitania is one of the regions where the resurgence of Covid-19 is more significant. At the Montpellier University Hospital, the number of cases has doubled in a week, but remains low, around ten per day. For the moment, here, as on the whole territory, the health authorities want to be reassuring. The sub-variant of Omicron, responsible for the recovery, does not seem particularly dangerous. His symptoms are not worrying.
mild symptoms
Professor Bruno Mégarbane, head of the intensive care unit at the Lariboisière hospital in Paris, describes: “It is essentially nasopharyngitis, fever, fatigue and possibly digestive disorders. But not so much pneumonia, like the historical forms of the disease.“Caution is still needed in people who are frail, elderly or have chronic illnesses. A new vaccination campaign is planned from October.
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