facing the 7th wave, the French put on the mask and get tested

In Lille (Nord), Wednesday June 29, few inhabitants wore a mask. But the rebound of the Covid-19 epidemic worries the population. “I am a mother, and I can see that in my children’s schools, we talk about it a little more, and we redo the tests for the children.“, confides a resident of Lille. In the region, the incidence rate has increased by 55% in one week; it thus greatly exceeds the alert threshold. Some have therefore decided to re-adopt all barrier gestures.

“I put on the hydroalcoholic gel, the mask and I go to the pharmacy to do the fourth vaccine“, says a Lille resident. This increased vigilance was also noticed in pharmacies. In a pharmacy in the city, in a few days, the demand for tests exploded. “Before, we had 10% positives, and we went to 25% positives“, Explain Geoffrey Vlemynckx, pharmacy technician. At the same time, the hospitalization rate is on the rise again.