According to Rémi Salomon 15/20% of new cases are linked to the variant -

Caroline Politi / 20 Minutes

  • The president of the medical commission of the Public Assistance-Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP) said on Tuesday that the latest results on the presence of the Covid-19 variants "are not good" in the Ile-de- France.

  • "There will be an acceleration of the epidemic if we do not significantly do anything more", he warned.

  • He calls for schools to be closed for "three weeks to a month".

The calm before the storm ?

While for a few days the pace of new contaminations in Ile-de-France seems to be on a (very high) plateau, the president of the medical commission of Public Assistance-Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP) said on Tuesday that the latest results on the presence of Covid-19 variants "are not good" in the region.

"We were rather around 6% on January 7 and we rose to 15-20% last week," he said on Franceinfo.

And to insist: the English variant being “40 to 70% more contagious, there will be an acceleration of the epidemic if we do not significantly do anything more (…).

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Evolution of the variant

Could these data call into question the government's strategy?

Friday, without ruling out the thesis of a future reconfinement, Prime Minister Jean Castex indicated that the evolution of the epidemic made it possible to give oneself a "little time".

Insufficient measures according to the chairman of the medical commission of the AP-HP who calls for the closure of schools for "three weeks-one month".

“Even though it looks like [the epidemic curve] is slipping down a bit, that's false good news,” he said.

There is behind that a very intense circulation of the virus.

My colleagues in Marseille are at 30-40% deprogramming.

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The latest official figures date from the first Flash survey, carried out on January 6 and 7.

6.9% of the cases identified in Ile-de-France were then due to the “English” variant, according to the latest weekly report from Public Health France.

Last week, a new investigation was carried out to assess the evolution of the variant, the results of which will not be available until next week.

On January 26, the AP-HP had indicated that 10% of cases detected between January 11 and 21 were linked to this variant.

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