Vaccination, barrier gestures ... Can we still speed up the epidemic outbreak?

DECRYPTION

The latest epidemiological data show an increase in the incidence rate everywhere and in all age groups.

The European Diseases Agency speaks, by August 1, of a fivefold increase in contaminations.

On Monday, the 10,000 daily case mark was crossed for the first time since the end of May.

What is worrying, explains Public Health France, is more the trend than the number of cases.

In one week, we went from an incidence rate of 25 to 40 cases per 100,000 inhabitants everywhere in France.

This incidence is particularly marked among 10-39 year olds.

>>

Find Europe morning weekend in podcast and in replay here 

Go faster than the virus

The situation is deteriorating in Occitanie, Île-de-France and the PACA region, particularly in the departments of Pyrénées-Orientales and Haute-Corse.

But hospital indicators are still on the decline.

It is therefore a race against time, explains to Europe 1 Benjamin Davido, infectious disease specialist at the Raymond Poincaré hospital in Garches.

"On an epidemiological level, the situation is worrying, it requires monitoring, it requires having indicators. It is not yet in the hospital and everything must be done so that, ultimately, the vaccination is right. virus and crosses the finish line before the Covid-19 has caught up with us, "he urges. 

>> READ ALSO -

Explosion of contaminations in the Pyrénées-Orientales: "This department gets the ball rolling"

Maintain barrier gestures

"There is no fatality," also hammered Public Health France.

The only solutions in this summer period of population mixing: prevention and vaccination.

By maintaining barrier gestures, by limiting risky situations, by isolating yourself from the first symptoms, before doing a rapid test, and by going for a vaccination.

To date, more than 28 million French people have complete vaccination coverage.