The epidemic, which had experienced a lull after a post-busy wave, has been left for more than three weeks. It is carried by the BQ.1.1 subvariant of Omicron, which is gradually replacing Ba. 5.
MO12345LEMONDE with AFP
“The epidemic has not disappeared, the virus still kills and still strikes,” said Elisabeth Borne, the Prime Minister, at the end of November in the National Assembly. At a time when the ninth wave of the COVVI-19 epidemic begins, the threshold of the 160,000 deaths linked to the COVVI-19 was crossed in France, according to figures published Tuesday, December 13 by Public Health.
A total of 160,008 people died, including 130,617 in the hospital. The 150,000 dead mark was crossed on July 8. On the year 2022 alone, nearly 40,000 deaths of the covid were recorded.
The epidemic, which had experienced a lull after a post-busy wave, has been left for more than three weeks. It is carried by the BQ.1.1 subvariant of Omicron, which gradually replaces Ba. 5.
Almost three years after the start of the pandemic, this new wave has always increased contamination, but at a slowdown in recent days. The horizon of the epidemic peak is still uncertain.
Tuesday evening, there were 23,217 hospitalized patients, including 2,104 new admissions. One hundred and thirty-five patients died in the hospital in the last twenty-four hours.
The COVID-19 is added to an early and ascending flu, but also to bronchiolitis at record levels for more than ten years in infants. This “triple epidemic”, which strikes, as in other countries, an already proven health system, is “completely unprecedented”, and its evolution difficult to foresee, had stressed in early December Health Public France.
Holiday vaccination
Now, anti -Cavid recall vaccination remains lagging behind in France -like the one against flu -despite a recent rebound. Only “2.8 million people have been vaccinated against COVVI-19 since early October, it is much less than our European neighbors,” said Health Minister François Braun last week, specifically evoking the recall campaign in progress.
calling for a start, the minister hammered that everyone could “be vaccinated” with an anti-Cavid recall, while communication on autumn vaccination has been criticized for his confusion. This message was relayed to professionals Tuesday by the Directorate General of Health.
For wearing the mask, the government is still abstaining from making an obligation in closed and frequented places, the chagrin of caregivers, epidemiologists or patient associations.