The last assessment reports 3,547 confirmed cases. “Global prevention allows for the first time a drop in incidence,” said Jérôme Salomon, Director General of Health.
Le Monde with AFP
The vaccination against the variola of the monkey will be maintained in France for another several months in 2022 and probably in early 2023, the Ministry of Health said on Tuesday August 30, welcoming a mobilization which “begins to bear fruit” .
“Global prevention allows for the first time a drop in incidence”, rejoiced during a press briefing Professor Jérôme Salomon, Director General of Health. His remarks echoed those of the World Health Organization which has shortly considered “encouraging” the signs of slowing down the epidemic of the variolate of the monkey in Europe.
If scientific models go in the direction of a continuation of the decrease in the number of new cases, we “must do everything to further reduce the impact of the epidemic”, however advocated Mr. Solomon.
In France, the latest assessment reports 3,547 confirmed cases. In number of cases, the country is in the fourth row European, but arrives in seventh rank if we bring this number to the population, detailed Laëtitia Huiart, scientific director of public health France. About 1 % of sick people had to be hospitalized, a “stable” figure. “The data suggests that we have passed the peak of contamination, but we remain very cautious,” she said.
70,000 doses of vaccine administered
In France, 220 vaccination centers have to administer 70,000 doses of vaccine to date. “By the end of the week, we will have exceeded 140,000 doses delivered in the field,” said Jérôme Salomon.
The experimentation of a vaccination in five pharmacies of three regions, launched in early August, is “positive”, but there are “organizational and logistical difficulties, with cold, conservation” challenges of vaccine doses, He also indicated. If we can “advocate a pragmatic enlargement” of the initiative according to needs, it is not intended to be generalized, he continued.
Vaccination cannot in any case be enough to stem the epidemic, recalled Mr. Salomon, insisting on the importance of prevention and individual and collective behavior.
The Minister of Health, François Braun, will bring together on September 13 “all stakeholders, associations in particular”, as he had done in early August, to take stock of the epidemic, he announced in a doctor’s daily maintenance.