The R0, which represents the number of new people infected by a person infected with Covid-19, is an indicator particularly scrutinized by the authorities to assess the health situation in the country. So when the R0 is 1, a contaminated person contaminates another. A person contaminated with contaminates 2 when the R0 is equal to 2.
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Only Guyana in the red
At the end of May, this R0 in France was 0.76, a sign that the epidemic was decreasing. In mainland France, Île-de-France (0.8) and Brittany (0.9) have an R0 slightly higher than that of other regions, but the epidemic is declining all the same. Same observation for Mayotte (0.9).
In New Aquitaine, this estimated figure for the period from 23 to 29 May is 0.71, a figure lower than the national average, but higher than that of the Rhône-Alpes region, which over this period had the highest score low for a French region with an R0 of 0.64.
Only Guyana has an R0 greater than 1 (2.95) and therefore sees the epidemic continue to progress.
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Public health France indicates that on March 15, just before confinement, the R0 reached 2.8 in France. When it came out of the containment on May 11, it was only 0.8.
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