“The worst is behind us and we have done the hardest in this wave”said this Wednesday, on BFMTV, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, about the fifth wave of Covid-19 in France. “Across the country, we have passed the peak of contaminations”he added. “In the same way, we are reaching the peak of hospitalizations and we have spent the peak in intensive care for ten days”.
End of the vaccination pass in July?
Olivier Véran also judges “likely” the end of the vaccination pass before July “given the current dynamic”. “The end, we know it, is July. But if we can remove the pass before, we will.” The government will rely on “relevant indicators” as “the rate occupancy of resuscitation beds by Covid patients” he continued.
Asked about the vaccination pass, the Minister announced that one infection will be equal to one injection to obtain this vaccination pass, provided that at least one dose of vaccine has been received.
Finally he contemplates the end of the mask within “in the spring, if the epidemic follows its course”.
“At least one in two French people” has had Covid-19 since the start of the epidemic
Furthermore, the minister stated that a third of 32,700 patients currently in hospital with a Covid diagnosis was not there because of the Covid but for another reason. For “one in three patients” counted in hospitalized persons, “His hospitalization has nothing to do with it” with the Covid, he said. According to Olivier Véran, “at least one in two French people” has had coronavirus since the outbreak began.
Regarding contamination by the Omicron variant, less dangerous than the previous variant but infinitely more contagious, the minister mentioned a figure of 15 million people affected.