The Covid-19 epidemic resumes in France with more than 91,000 new cases recorded on November 29 according to Public Health France, a figure up 41.7% over seven days. Faced with this outbreak of cases, the Prime Minister urged this Tuesday, November 29 the French to put the mask back on public transport and in contact with vulnerable people (elderly, immunocompromised, etc.) in order to stop this 9e vague.
“Let’s respect the barrier gestures, wear the mask as soon as we are with fragile people or in promiscuous areas. It’s the little things that save lives, we know it. They are decisive in rolling back the epidemic.”she told the National Assembly, affirming her confidence in the population to respond to the call for solidarity.
Faced with the epidemic of #bronchiolitisflu and #Covid, @Elisabeth_Borne calls on the French to get vaccinated and “be vigilant together”. Returning to the debates around the reintegration of non-vaccinated caregivers, she denounces “demagogic” measures.#DirectAN#QAGpic.twitter.com/F2ud5tExmW
—LCP (@LCP) November 29, 2022
The Covid-19 virus has not (yet) disappeared
“A nearly 10% increase in hospitalizations in one week, a 22% increase in critical care hospitalizations and 400 Covid-related deaths last week“, counted Elisabeth Borne, recalling that “this new wave reminds us: the virus has not disappeared, the epidemic still strikes, kills again“.
The Prime Minister also expressed concern about the too low rate of booster vaccination and called on eligible French people to get vaccinated, to protect themselves and avoid overcrowding hospitals, which are already dealing with flu epidemics, “particularly virulent this year” and bronchiolitis,”the highest in the last ten years”. They should “cope with additional pressure“in the coming weeks, she estimated.
