According to figures published Thursday by the Ministry of Health, the resumption of the epidemic is clear, with screening activity, between September 12 and 18, up “sharply” by 33% compared to the previous week.
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The eighth wave of Covid-19 arrives in France. The number of tests for the virus has “again crossed” the million last week, according to figures published Thursday, September 22 by the Ministry of Health. This barometer of the health crisis thus exceeds the symbolic threshold of one million for the first time in six weeks, after having reached its lowest levels in August for two years.
The recovery is clear. With 1,132,300 PCR and antigen tests validated between September 12 and 18, screening activity is in “sharp rise”, by 33%, compared to the previous week, specifies the direction of statistics (Drees) in a press release.
Children and adults combined, the daily number of positive cases has almost doubled in two weeks and now exceeds 30,000 (on average over seven days). The rebound is particularly strong among young people under 16, among whom the number of tests almost doubled (+97%) last week. This tends to confirm that the observed increase in contamination is “mostly carried” by this age group, as Public Health France noted in its last weekly update.