The fifth wave [de la pandémie de Covid-19] is there, “government spokesman Gabriel Attal warned on Wednesday. “We have entered a fifth wave of the epidemic, with a number of contaminations, an incidence which is progressing very rapidly, of the order of 40 to 50% per week for two weeks now”, underlined the secretary of State during the report of the Council of Ministers
“The incidence rate is now greater than 100 throughout the territory, and it is particularly high in Corsica, Provence Alpes Côte-d’Azur and the Pays de la Loire region”, he noted. , by insisting on the “emergency situation in our country”, even if “we start from lower than most of our neighbors”.
“We cross each wave better than the last”
Regarding hospitalizations, “we feel a tremor, a slightly greater than 10% increase in patients hospitalized for Covid over a week and this therefore calls for vigilance”, he added, recalling that “since the arrival vaccine, it is indeed the situation in the hospital which becomes the justice of the peace of the epidemic ”.
The spokesperson nevertheless wants to be reassuring: “We have good reasons to believe that [la cinquième vague] will not take everything in its path “, thanks to” the effectiveness of the vaccine “, the health pass and respect for barrier gestures. “All this can allow us to get through the winter without having to take additional (restrictive) measures,” he insisted.
“We go through each wave better than the previous one, because we learn each time how to manage this epidemic because each time we have new tools that allow us to contain this epidemic and in particular its impact on the hospital. “, Added Gabriel Attal, in particular by inviting to use the booster dose. And to conclude: “We therefore have all the cards in hand in the face of this fifth wave. “