A few days before the start of the end-of-year celebrations, the question of a possible ninth wave of Covid is being raised in the media. Faced with the rise in cases of contamination in recent weeks, epidemiologists have sounded the alarm… which led Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne to speak about it before the National Assembly.
“The Covid-19 epidemic is starting again”, she declared this Tuesday, November 29, 2022 before reporting an increase of almost 10% in hospitalizations over one week”, 22% those “in critical care “, and 400 deaths last week. “This new wave reminds us: the virus has not disappeared, the epidemic strikes again, kills again. I make a solemn appeal: let’s respect barrier gestures. Let’s wear the mask as soon as we are with fragile people or in crowded areas such as public transport” insisted Elisabeth Borne.
“The epidemic has started again”
The famous epidemiologist and director of the Institute of Global Health at the University of Geneva, Antoine Flahault had also expressed his concerns two weeks ago: “This wave is earlier than that of last fall. “We should observe in the coming weeks in France a new wave, the ninth of this pandemic, carried by the BQ.1.1 sub-variant of Omicron”.
This Tuesday, November 29, 2022, Jamil Rahmani, anesthesiologist was present on the set of TPMP to take stock of this new alert. “In the metro, even when the mask was compulsory, many did not wear it, but it only takes two people who do not put it on to be contaminated. You have to put on the FFP2 mask which protects you from 98% of contamination” he asserted.
Faced with the anger of Guillaume Genton who pointed out that the question of the Covid had disappeared during the elections, the doctor declared: “I don’t think this is to scare people. There are figures, the R0 which is the witness of the progression of the epidemic, has gone back above 1, that is to say that ‘one person infects more than one person and the epidemic has started again…”.
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