“The hospital load continues to decline but the pace of this reduction has started to slow down,” the Minister of Health said on Friday.
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After the warning of the German government, that of the French executive. Olivier Véran reported a tremor of the Covid-19 pandemic on Friday March 11. “We are currently seeing a rebound, in France, in the countries around us, that is to say that the Covid is no longer falling, it is even increasing”said the Minister of Health during a trip to Isère.
“Given the latest figures from yesterday, it’s a 20% increase”he specified. “On the other hand, the hospital load continues to drop but the pace of this decrease has started to slow down, so we are extremely vigilant”, continued Olivier Véran. According to daily figures published Thursday by Public Health France, the number of patients hospitalized with a Covid-19 diagnosis continues to drop, but contaminations are on the rise, according to a trend observed for several days.
However, the timetable for lifting health restrictions is maintained, the minister stressed. “We will be on Monday in the objectives that we had set ourselves, so there is no difficulty in going to the end of the process of the end of the vaccination pass and the end of the mask, except in transport”said Olivier Véran.