The epidemic is “controlled” but “not over”, warns Public Health France

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Most of the restrictions were lifted in mid-March on the territory, but some measures are still in force, such as wearing a mask in public transport, the health pass required in health establishments, or even compulsory isolation after a positive test for Covid-19.

“New Variant”

“At the end of May-beginning of June, there will probably be political decisions,” said Friday on France Info Jean-Francois Delfraissythe president of the Scientific Council, which advises the government.

Because it is a fact: “We are coming out of this fifth wave, which has been a little longer than expected” and we can be “reasonably optimistic for France and Europe for the months to come, with probably a spring which is likely to go well, ”he judged. By the end of May, he predicts a drop in contamination of around 5 to 10,000 cases per day.

But, he recalled, the situation was the same a year ago, before the Delta variant arrived in France in June, which reshuffled the cards. The epidemic is under control but we all know that it is not over,” warned Delfraissy. We can indeed expect “the appearance of a new variant: we estimate it rather at the beginning of the school year but perhaps it will arrive before”. And the whole question will then be to know what will be its contagiousness, its severity and its resistance to vaccines.

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