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After a meeting of the so-called Health Protection Council, chaired by Head of State Emmanuel Macron, the prime minister acknowledged that “the situation has drastically deteriorated”, but ruled out the introduction of a general quarantine such as the spring one.
“The intensity of the virus is not going to decrease and it will be here with us for a few more months, we will have to learn to live with it without moving towards the logic of a general quarantine”, stressed Jean Castex. According to the Prime Minister, “social, economic and cultural life should not be put in parentheses” due to the increase in the number of cases.
“At the proposal of the Scientific Council, the segregation time will be reduced to seven days, that is, while the time of the real risk of infection,” said the prime minister. “It is important that everyone strictly adhere to this time of separation, which we will verify,” he added.
So far there has been no official quarantine in France, nor has the medically recommended home quarantine been verified.
Regional social security offices will hire about 2,000 people in the coming days to confirm the contact chains of those infected. Due to the increasing number of cases and staff shortages, authorities may discover their infected connections more and more slowly.
The prime minister indicated that the detection policy will also be strengthened and differentiated by the health authorities so that the producers of symptoms have preference and do not mix with asymptomatic people in the test sites. As tests have become free and massive for everyone, people have been waiting in meandering lines in front of clinics and in many places have to wait days for test results.
The government declared 42 out of 100 counties a red zone on Friday instead of the previous 28 due to the intense spread of the virus. There are more than fifty infected people for every 100,000 inhabitants in these municipalities, so the prefects can order restrictive measures. The Prime Minister indicated that in addition to the already mandatory use of the mask, further restrictions can be expected in southern Bordeaux, Marseille and French Guiana, to be decided locally.
Epidemic rates have mainly deteriorated in the southern part of the country in recent days, the number of hospital admissions on the French Riviera has also started to increase significantly, and intensive beds reserved for Covid-19 patients in Marseille are already full. .
The positive test rate is increasing day by day, reaching 5.4 percent on Thursday.
Currently, hospitals treat 5,096 infected people. An average of eighty patients are put on a ventilator a day, compared to an average of fifty a day last week. Currently, 615 seriously ill patients are cared for in intensive care units. At the height of the epidemic in April, there were more than 7,000 seriously ill people with a ventilator, and their number increased to 600 for the first time since June 30. The number of victims has risen to around twenty a day since the lifting of epidemiological restrictions: 19 people died on Thursday, bringing the number of deaths from Covid-19 infection to 30,813.
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