The number of cases is on the rise once more, but hospital indicators are down.
With 93,050 new positive cases in France in 24 hours, once morest 79,794 a week earlier, the resumption of contaminations goes back, according to the daily figures published by Public Health France yesterday, Monday March 8.
Increase in contamination
Thus, 54,609 new contaminations are detected on average every day in France over the last 7 days. This is a stable number compared to last Tuesday, when 54,547 new ones were registered on average over seven days.
This recovery worries some specialists, who believe that the end of certain health restrictions announced at the very beginning of this month is premature. First and foremost, the end of wearing a mask.
Thus the epidemiologist Antoine Flahault reacted on March 3 that if “suspending the vaccination pass can be agreed” thanks to a high vaccination rate, on the other hand “the lifting of the mask in closed places while the virus still circulates strongly leaves people at risk more exposed to serious and severe forms of Covid-19”.
At franceinfohe further stated: “It is in all closed, poorly ventilated places, which receive the public, that we become contaminated. We are still very high in the incidence rate today. To say that it will not be necessary to wear the mask when the virus will circulate little, I hear it very well. But to say that it will be March 14 is a bit hasty, I doubt that by this date the circulation of the virus will be so low that there are not many risks anymore”. And the latest figures from Public Health France seem to prove him right to date.
Fewer hospitalizations
On the other hand, hospitals had, still on March 8, 21,899 people hospitalized (-309 compared to the previous day) including 11,397 in conventional hospitalization (-196) and 2,036 in care critiques (-53).
As for the vaccination, it continues even if at moderate walking. Thus, 54.24 million French people have received at least one dose (i.e. 80.4% of the total population), nearly 53.3 million have a complete vaccination schedule (79% of the population), and more than 39, 21 million received a booster dose, according to the Directorate General of Health.
