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Monday March 21, France is experiencing a rebound from the 5th epidemic wave. Contaminations at VSvid-19 have been increasing since the beginning of March. How to explain it?
With the arrival of fine weather, everyone hoped for the departure of the VSvid-19but on the contrary, France is experiencing a rebound in the epidemic. In a pharmacy, this Monday, March 21, around 100 tests were carried out against around twenty before the rebound. Currently, there are almost 83,000 daily cases, which represents an increase of +36.4% in seven days.
The relaxation of barrier gestures would be the cause. But there would also be a new sub-variant. Omicron undergoes mutations. According to Olivier Schwartz, director of the virus and immunity unit at the Institut Pasteur, the virus would be a close cousin of the Omicron variant, and it would be the Omicron variant BA2. “It is 30% more transmissible”he says. Admissions go back to the hospital, but the scientific council is not alarmist. For now, the number of critically ill patients is not increasing.
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