An R0 below 1 indicates a slowdown in the coronavirus epidemic, and this indicator depends in particular on compliance with barrier gestures, including the wearing of a mask. - Franck Castel / MPP / SIPA

The Covid-19 epidemic is currently "controlled" in France, said this Friday the President of the Scientific Council, Professor Jean-François Delfraissy. “The virus continues to circulate, in particular in certain regions (…) but it circulates at a slow speed. Where we had roughly tens of thousands of cases, around 80,000 new cases per day at the beginning of March before confinement, we estimate that we are now around 1,000 cases approximately, "he explained on France Inter.

The scientific council presented a plan on Thursday with four possible scenarios for the next few weeks: “We think that scenario number 1, that of controlling the epidemic, is the most likely. Scenario 4, the most serious, is the one we don't want to see: let's do everything not to get there. It would be extremely difficult to have a new generalized containment, ”adds Jean-François Delfraissy.

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