The incidence rate of the virus responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic is no longer decreasing in France, while the number of appointments to be vaccinated “has started to rise again”, the government announced on Wednesday. Vaccination should make it possible to take “a head start” on the Delta variant, explained the government spokesperson. Gabriel Attal also stressed that the incidence rate was set at a “very low” level.
Incidence rate equivalent to last August
“For a few days, the incidence rate at the national level seems not to decrease any more”, warned the spokesman Gabriel Attal at the exit of the Council of Ministers. The incidence rate of the virus, that is to say the number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants, is “at a very low level of 18.5 on average in France” and “we must go back to August 2020 to find an impact at this level, “however reassured Gabriel Attal.
“The lower the level and the number of contaminations, the less rapid the decline, but there is also a part that worries us, it is the prospect of the Delta variant”, explained the spokesperson. “This Delta variant, I remind you, is 60% more contagious than the British variant, which itself was twice as contagious as the initial strain,” he worried. While the whole country got rid of the last confinement constraints on Wednesday, the Landes department, the most affected by this Delta variant in metropolitan France, extended them by a week, before the influx of vacationers on its beaches.
Increase in vaccine appointments
Gabriel Attal, on the other hand, announced that the number of daily vaccinations was maintained “at a very high level and, after having stalled for some time, the number of appointments for the first injections started to rise again between plus 10% and plus 20% “.
“This summer, thanks to the vaccine, we can get a head start on the Delta variant. Each vaccination is a protection against the fourth wave, each vaccination is a step towards a sustainable return to the life before,” insisted the spokesperson. With 33,690,499 people having received at least a first injection, France crossed the threshold of 50% of the total first-vaccinated population on Tuesday. A third of the population, or 22,265,100 people, is now fully vaccinated.
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