The circulation of the virus is "sharply increasing", warns Public Health France. 1,130 new cases of Covid-19 were identified on Friday. The health authorities are concerned about the situation in tourist areas, in particular on the coast.
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There are two regions where the virus is circulating more than elsewhere at the moment: Brittany, where a new cluster has just been identified in Quiberon, and Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The latter region alone has 13 outbreaks of contamination, 10 more than last month.
"Everything risks being played out within three weeks"
It must be said that the summer season is particularly conducive to the rebound of the epidemic, alert at the microphone of Europe 1 Jérôme Marty, president of a union of general practitioners. "Everything is likely to come into play within three weeks because we are entering the dangerous period. This is the moment when there is the highest rate of displacement and concentration of the population. There are areas where in normal times we has 10,000 inhabitants, and where we go all at once to 60,000 or 80,000 inhabitants. So overnight, we can pay towards an exponential increase in hospitalization cases. "
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Hospitals are not as crowded as they were during the lockdown. But what is new is that these new cases mainly concern young adults, between 15 and 44 years old. Patients who do not develop or have few serious cases of disease. But the risk, warn epidemiologists, is that they contaminate an older, more fragile population. The increase in the number of hospitalizations could also be difficult to manage in the middle of summer, a period when hospital services are sluggish.