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French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced that the planned quarantine period for coronavirus positives and their contacts will increase from 14 to 7 days, as recommended by the local scientific technical committee. Furthermore, no new restrictive measures will be introduced for the time being to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
Castex’s announcement came after a worrying increase in infections was registered in the country in recent days, and after Jean-François Delfraissy, chairman of the scientific committee charged with advising the government on handling the pandemic, said that the government would have had to make “difficult decisions” to counteract the pandemic. Castex, for its part, has only announced that the number of tests that are carried out daily will be increased, also thanks to the hiring of more than 2,000 people between doctors and health personnel, and reiterated that the isolation period for those who are positive for the coronavirus and your contacts no symptoms will be reduced from 14 to 7 days.
Castex reiterated the need to maintain safe distances to avoid the circulation of the virus, and said that the government is monitoring in particular the situation in the cities of Marseille and Bordeaux, where the hospitalization rate is very worrying: that is why it has asked the prefects that provide a series of new complementary measures for the two cities before Monday. On Thursday, 9,843 new cases of coronavirus registered in the previous 24 hours were announced, for a total of 353,944 cases since the start of the outbreak, and 19 deaths, for a total of 30,813. There are 615 patients admitted to intensive care: 54 on Thursday, 71 on Wednesday and more than 80 between Tuesday and Monday.
The number of deaths and patients in the ICU is not alarming, but the government and health authorities are concerned about the extent of the infection, which has spread rapidly in recent weeks: 33,410 new ones were registered in the week of 24 to 30 of August. cases, in the one from August 31 to September 6 there were 43,686 while in the last there were 45,542 new positives. Also in the last week, more than a million tests have been carried out, for a total of 10 million since the start of the pandemic. In the week of September 1-6, the positivity rate, that is, the number of positive tests per hundred, was 5.4 percent.
The decision to reduce the isolation from 14 to 7 days had already been announced in recent days, and had sparked much discussion because it is contrary to the guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO), which instead recommends two weeks of quarantine for people who have come into contact with positive, verified or probable cases.
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