In a memo released on Monday, council members said the loosening of lockdowns on March 14 is likely to further push up virus transmission rates.
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While France has just abandoned the wearing of masks and vaccine passes against Covid-19, the scientific council has published a noteMonday March 14, to warn of the risks of a “trivialization of the epidemic” while this one “is not over”. With “more than 50,000 new cases diagnosed per day and an incidence rate of around 630 cases per 100,000 people per week”, contamination is on the rise again.
“More than 50%” of them are due to the Omicron sub-variant, BA.2, “more transmissible” corn “no more severe”, notes the scientific council. If he thinks that “high-level vaccination has made it possible to limit the hospital impact of these very numerous contaminations”he recalls that“about 4 million adult people” are still not vaccinated and that “almost 5 million people” did not receive a 3rd booster dose.
“The number of hospitalizations will temporarily increase in the coming weeks”, warns the scientific council, according to which the number of daily cases could exceed 100,000 in March, following the relaxation of control measures. However, he is counting on the arrival of fine weather in the coming weeks to limit this epidemic resumption.