Here we go again.
While the number of Covid cases has been declining steadily for two months, for a few days, “we are already seeing a slight increase (…) in the viral circulation” of the coronavirus, declared Guillaume Spaccaferri, epidemiologist at Public Health France .
He nevertheless underlined “the absence of hospital impact”, even if it is still early to assess this.
The seven-day average of cases, an indicator that smooths out abnormal variations, has been rising since Monday and now stands at around 20,000 new daily cases.
The reassuring example of South Africa and Portugal
Why this recovery?
"It's always tricky to provide an answer with a single cause", admitted Guillaume Spaccaferri, referring to "a less good application of barrier gestures" as well as "the impact of the dissemination of BA.4 and BA.5" .
In France, these two incarnations of the Omicron variant are gaining ground even if they remained a minority in the figures stopped last week: less than 1% of new cases for BA.4 and 5% for BA.5.
Public Health France experts have however noted that the experience of South Africa and Portugal, where BA.4 and BA.5 have become the majority, was a priori reassuring, since these two countries have not experienced any massive waves of hospitalizations and deaths.
“To date, there is no signal that suggests BA.4 or BA.5 are more severe than other Omicron lineages,” noted epidemiologist Anna Maisa.
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