The circulation of the coronavirus continues to decline on French territory, in particular under the impetus of a strong vaccination. The national incidence rate has fallen below the bar of 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. Better, in the Creuse or the Vosges, this rate is less than 15. Figures scrutinized each week by the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, who hypothesized at the beginning of the week of a reduction in the health pass, under condition a favorable opinion from the Scientific Council.
Less constraints at the national level? Local suppression? The subject is in any case on the table of the Defense Council which is being held this Thursday. “We are still on our logic which consists in saying that if the virus goes down, the constraints go down”, recalled Olivier Véran.
The drop in the number of patients is particularly striking in hospitals. “In my department, there is only one left,” says Marc Léone, head of intensive care at the northern hospital of Marseille, in the Parisian. However, many doctors and epidemiologists find it is too early. With the arrival of autumn, then winter, the number of cases should automatically start to rise. They emphasize that each time the constraints were lifted, a new wave followed …