A carnival structure takes the form of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, in Nice.
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The Covid-19 epidemic will not be under control before the summer of 2022, epidemiologist Didier Pittet said on Thursday, adding, however, that "we would return to the theater" and that we would find "other social activities Before this deadline.
"It is in summer 2022 that we will be able to really take stock of the situation and everything will be much easier", declared on France Inter Professor Pittet, inventor of hydroalcoholic gel and president of the national independent mission on the assessment of the management of the Covid-19 crisis in France.
"But we'll go back to the theater first and there will be other nice social activities."
Autumn will not be "normal"
The next two months are going to be tricky because "we are still in winter and we know that respiratory viruses like this period," he said.
There will be "then the vaccination campaign" and we will be able to do "a first assessment at the beginning of the summer".
"But we will then be propelled towards the fall and there will certainly be other variants, perhaps we will need other vaccines, we will still have to be able to pass an autumn which will not be a normal fall", a continued the epidemiologist.
Also head of the infection control service at Geneva University Hospitals, Didier Pittet said he was "optimistic" about the latest figures for the epidemic in France.
"We are in a stable plateau, relatively high with a number of transmissions which continues to be done, but it is all the same a plateau", declared the doctor.
"We are in a kind of armed vigilance, so as to avoid having to pay with a return of the epidemic at higher rates".
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