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Coronavirus – towards improvement in France? Indicators are encouraging

While France is experiencing a fourth coronavirus epidemic wave, some indicators reveal the evolution is encouraging and could let us think this is the beginning of an improvement in the situation despite the Delta variant.

Covid: 18,000 contaminations in 24h, “We have never experienced this”, worries Olivier Véran

Over the past 24 hours, France has reported 18,000 new Covid-19 contamination cases. This is what Olivier Véran announced to the National Assembly this Tuesday July 20, saying the country has never experienced this before.

Covid: lockdown exit more “political” than “health-oriented”, doctors think

Despite Covid, lockdown exit has been denigrated by scientists once more… In an opinion’s column released this Sunday May 9 in Journal du Dimanche, about twenty doctors and specialists have called into question the upcoming lockdown exit phases planed by the executive including the reopening of many places of life throughout the country starting from May 19. A lockdown exit they consider more “political” than “health-oriented”.

Covid in Île-de-France: “The epidemic is getting carried away”, nurses worried facing the third wave

Doctors and health professionals have been warning about the pending outbreak of a third Covid-19 epidemic wave for weeks, especially in Île-de-France, the hardest-hit region. As the population complies with a new lockdown, hospital units are being overwhelmed and the incidence rate keeps on increasing. Caregivers assume they are close to the “breaking point”.