“We are coming out of this 5th Omicron wave but the pandemic is not over”, says Jean-François Delfraissy

“We are coming out of this 5th Omicron wave, spring should probably be fine”, Jean-François Delfraissy, President of the Scientific Council, said Friday, May 6 on franceinfo, while all the Covid-19 indicators are down. But “the pandemic is not over”he added.

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According to him, the 5th wave was “a little longer than expected due to the climate and some form of relaxation of barrier measures”. “We are landing, not just in France, but in Europe”, said Jean-François Delfraissy. The 5th wave should “end by the end of May with figures around 5,000 to 10,000 new contaminations per day”. Jean-François Delfraissy puts it into perspective despite everything: “We were at this level last year and unfortunately the Delta variant arrived in June, so we can expect a new variant to appear, rather at the start of the school year, but we have the tools to Wrestle”.

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The World Health Organization warns of the importance of continuing to sequence variants to find out if there are new ones. “She’s right“, reacted the president of the Scientific Council. “By definition, new variants to gain power over the current variant must be more transmissible”that’s why you have to be able to detect them, he said.

Regarding the wearing of a mask in transport and “where there is a risk of contamination, there is a certain form of logic” for Jean-François Delfraissy, who said that“there will probably be a political decision”. For this summer, “it will be up to them [les politiques] to decide.”