The Covid-19 epidemic is currently "controlled" in France, said the chairman of the Scientific Council, Professor Jean-François Delfraissy, on Friday.

"The virus continues to circulate, in particular in certain Regions [...], but it circulates at a slow speed. Where there were roughly several tens of thousands of cases, around 80,000 new cases per day at the beginning of March before confinement, it is estimated that we are now around 1000 cases approximately, "he explained on France Inter.

With AFP

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