Olivier Véran, Minister of Health, August 11 in Montpellier.

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  • Did Olivier Véran launch: "The virus circulates less quickly but more quickly"?

  • This is a truncated quote from an interview given to France Inter on September 8.

Beware of incomplete quotes.

The latest example is Olivier Véran, the Minister of Health.

The latter would have declared, according to a quote attributed to him on social networks: "The virus circulates less quickly but more quickly".

The sentence aroused the surprise or mockery of some Internet users.

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At the first reading, the sentence calls out.

However, that is not what the minister said.

The full quote can be found in an interview given by Olivier Véran to France Inter on Tuesday, September 8.

Asked about the new cases of Covid-19, the Minister of Health compared the current situation to that of the spring.

“The figures that come out on Monday reflect the activity of the weekend, and on weekends, the entries are always more random.

So I do not retain - and I ask you not to retain - the idea that yesterday there would have been fewer cases than expected, ”he began by recalling.

. @ olivierveran: "We are on a slope with a reproduction factor of the virus lower than last spring. The #virus is still circulating rapidly. So yes it is worrying" # Health #Covid # le79Inter pic.twitter.com/qtDHfZYqUf

- France Inter (@franceinter) September 8, 2020

“In reality, we are on a slope, with a reproduction factor of the virus, the famous factor R - how many people, when I am sick, I will contaminate - which is today around 1.2, a- he continued.

It's a lot less than last spring and that's the good news, [because] it was 3.2 - 3.4 [in the spring].

That is to say that it [the coronavirus] circulates less quickly, but it circulates all the same, and it circulates nevertheless more and more quickly, since 1.2 is more than 1. ”

At the end of May, after confinement, this rate of reproduction of the virus had fallen below 1. If the minister endeavors to lower this figure, it is because "with an R0 less than 1, we control an epidemic », Recalled in May at

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