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Cases of Covid-19 continue to increase in France with the BA5 variant. On the set of 20 Hours, Monday June 27, the doctor and journalist Damien Mascret explains the specificities of this variant.
Monday June 27, the Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon, recommended that the French wear a mask in transport to deal with the BA5 variant which is essential and is increasing the cases of Covid-19. “It is first more contagious, in addition, there is more immune escape and finally, it is, perhaps even more dangerous“, details Dr. Damien Mascret, doctor and journalist France Télévisions, present on the set of 20 Hours.
Symptoms of the BA5 variant can last for seven days, making sufferers more contagious. Finally, in addition to cough and sore throat, other symptoms are added such as nausea, vomiting, runny nose. Portugal, which suffered the wave of the BA5 variant before France, is now coming out of it. “They come out with a mortality that has been high. What happened in Portugal is that they hadn’t done the fourth dose“, explains Damien Mascret. Since then, the vaccination booster has been launched, in Portugal and France.
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