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The epidemic of Covid-19 seems to be bouncing back in France. More than 98,000 new cases have been identified by Health public FranceSaturday, March 19. The number of hospitalizations is still falling.
In front of the laboratories, the queues are reforming. In Paris, an establishment has decided to open again on Sundays, to meet high demand: you have to wait half an hour before getting tested for Covid-19. “I learned that I had colleagues infected with the virus and, since the masks have been removed, it is a bit risky“says a person in the queue.
The rate of contamination has been on the rise for several days. The numbers are unequivocal: Saturday March 19, there were 98,104 new cases, almost twice as many as 15 days ago. The increase in infections is linked to the very rapid spread of BA.2a new variant of Omicron. It is the majority in France, and no one is immune. “It is quite possible to have been infected two months ago, and to be reinfected now by BA.2“, explains Lionel Barrandpresident of the union of medical biologists.
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