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On Friday, September 11, French President Emmanuel Macron will announce new decisions “that will clarify the coming weeks” after the “worrying” situation of coronavirus infections in France in recent days, as Jean-François Delfraissy, president of the Scientific committee in charge of advising the government in the management of pandemics.
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 regions most in need are Ile-de-France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Occitania and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, which together have 68 percent of patients in intensive care. Also on Thursday, 71 new outbreaks were confirmed.
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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.
On Wednesday, Delfraissy, president of the scientific committee, had said that the government “must make difficult decisions”, explaining that “it is possible to be calm” because the circulation of the virus now “is not being felt” in the health system but could have made “a very rapid and exponential increase at a later time”, especially in the southern region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
Macron responded by saying that we should “try to slow down as much as possible and stop the circulation of the virus” also “by adapting the organization of social life” while “we continue living”, “sending children to school” and “treating other diseases” . . He also stressed that the new measures “will be adapted to the territory” and finally invited the French “to do their part.”
Among the most likely measures according to French newspapers, on which the government has not commented, are restrictions on movement, meetings and local closures. A measure certainly discussed will instead be the reduction of isolation from 14 to 7 days, 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 positives , verified or probable. On Tuesday, French Health Minister Olivier Véran said he had received a favorable opinion on the measure from the scientific committee “in a number of situations.” Many French people do not respect the two weeks of isolation and the government hopes that a reduction of the times will favor a greater compliance. The proposal generated much discussion: there are those who think that it could actually encourage virtuous behavior and those who fear that it could increase the risk of contagion.
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Meanwhile, among the isolated people is also Prime Minister Jean Castex: over the weekend he met with the president of the Tour de France, Christian Prudhomme, who had a positive result earlier this week. Immediately afterwards, Castex also underwent the test, which came back negative.
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