Friday 11 September the French President Emmanuel Macron will announce new decisions “that will clarify the coming weeks” following the “worrying” situation of coronavirus infections in France in recent days, as Jean-François Delfraissy, the president of the Scientific Committee responsible for advising the government on management, defined it on Wednesday of the pandemic.
Thursday have been announced 9,843 new coronavirus cases recorded in the previous 24 hours, for a total of 353,944 cases since the beginning of the epidemic, and 19 deaths, for a total of 30,813. There are 615 patients admitted to intensive care: 54 on Thursday, 71 on Wednesday and more than 80 between Tuesday and Monday. The regions most in need are Ile-de-France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Occitania and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, which together have 68 percent of patients in intensive care. Also on Thursday, 71 new outbreaks were confirmed.
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The number of deaths and ICU patients is not alarming, but the government and health authorities are concerned about the extent of the infection, which has spread rapidly in recent weeks: 33,410 new ones were registered in the week of 24 to 30 August. cases, in the one from 31 August to 6 September there were 43,686 while in the last there were 45,542 new positives. Also in the last week, more than a million tests have been carried out, for a total of 10 million since the start of the pandemic. In the week from 1st to 6th September the positivity rate, that is the number of positive tests per hundred, was 5.4 percent.
On Wednesday Delfraissy, the president of the scientific committee, had said that the government “must make difficult decisions”, explaining that “you can feel calm” because the circulation of the virus now “is not being felt” on the health system but that it could have ” a very rapid and exponential increase at a later time », particularly in the southern region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
Macron responded by saying that we must “try to slow down as much as possible and stop the circulation of the virus” also “by adapting the organization of social life” while “continuing to live”, “sending children to school” and “treating other diseases” . He also stressed that the new measures will be “adapted to the territory” and finally invited the French “to do their part”.
Among the most probable measures according to the French newspapers – on which the government has not commented – are restrictions on circulation, gatherings and localized lockdowns. A measure will certainly be discussed instead the reduction of insulation 14 to 7 days, contrary to the guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO), which instead recommends two weeks of quarantine for people who have come into contact with positive, verified or probable cases. On Tuesday, French Health Minister Olivier Véran said he had received a favorable opinion on the measure from the scientific committee “in a number of situations”. Many French people do not respect the two weeks of isolation and the government hopes that a reduction in the times will favor greater compliance. The proposal caused a lot of discussion: there are those who think that it could actually encourage virtuous behavior and those who fear that it could increase the risk of contagion.
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Meanwhile, among the people in isolation there is also Prime Minister Jean Castex: over the weekend he met with the president of the Tour de France, Christian Prudhomme, who had a positive result earlier this week. Immediately after that Castex had also taken the test, resulting negative.
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