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July 20, 2021 A leap in infections in France, where 18 thousand new cases have been registered in the last 24 hours, an "never-before-seen" surge due to the Delta variant, as stated by the Minister of Health, Olivier Veran.
A week ago there were fewer than 7,000 new cases. "I just got the data on the infections of the last 24 hours in our country. Yesterday there were 18 thousand infections", said the minister in his speech to the National Assembly. Last night, at the end of the Council of Ministers, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said that France has entered "a fourth wave of the virus".
In the sights of the French Minister of Health, there is the achievement of 40 million vaccinated with one dose by the end of July. "The target of 40 million vaccinated with one dose, set for the end of August, will be reached by the end of July," he told local media. Veran also hoped that the country would reach "80-85% vaccination coverage for those over 12 at the end of August".
Meanwhile, the decision of the government of Paris also emerges, disputed however by the opinion of scientific experts to make the
use of the mask
no longer mandatory
in cinemas, museums, sports facilities: the use is no longer mandatory for the public in all those places where entry will be conditioned on the health pass, the French equivalent of the so-called ' green pass'.
"If in possession of the
health pass
", people "will be able to remove the mask", "unless the prefects in the departments counter-order, in relation to the epidemic situation", said Vèran. The mask is no longer necessary because the health pass implies "the certainty that all people who enter public places are fully vaccinated or have a very recent test that is negative," said the minister.