The Covid-19 epidemic is experiencing a significant rebound in France at the dawn of the summer holidays, and when tourists from all over the world are expected to come to attend the 2024 Olympic Games organized mainly in Paris. The figures speak for themselves!
In just over a month, the kickoff of the Paris Olympic Games 2024 will be given, to begin with an opening ceremony which has already caused a lot of talk because of the potential artists who could perform on the banks of the Seine on this occasion. Indeed, the name of singer Aya Nakamura was mentioned at the beginning of spring, sparking strong, if not excessive, reactions. Finally, we do not yet have the assurance that the interpreter of Pookie will be there on July 26. On the other hand, the pioneer of french touch Marc Cerrone is confirmed. We can already hear the sound of Supernature resonate!
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And if the names of the pop star British Dua Lipa was cited, as was that of Céline Dion who made her comeback in France on Sunday June 16 in the news of 20 hours of TF1it is now theCovid-19 epidemic which is at the heart of the organizers’ concerns.
All indicators are on the rise
Indeed, Public Health France has just revealed worrying figures while millions of tourists are expected in the coming weeks in Paris, of course, but also in all the other host cities of the Olympic Games such as Nice, Nantes, Bordeaux and even Lille. In other words, the circulation of the virus is set to intensify! “Recourses for suspected COVID-19 have continued to increase for eight weeks” in the hospital or in community medicine, emphasize the specialists in a report published last week. We talk about a still moderate increase but the dynamic is “more and more marked” with +52% visits to emergency departments in just one week And +51% calls to SOS Médecins over the same period (1,507 acts from June 3 to 10).
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Furthermore, the analysis of wastewater “where the presence of Sars-CoV-2 is monitored in 12 stations”also demonstrates an inflation of the “viral circulation for a month”, while a cluster had already caused a lot of talk in the capital last month on the sidelines of the concerts of American star Taylor Swift. At the end of the artist’s performances at La Défense Arena in Paris, the largest indoor venue in Europe, many fans posted their positive tests on social networks.
Acceleration of the increase with the mixing of the population
The Covid-19 epidemic is therefore not behind us according to experts, although the WHO has no longer considered the disease a global health emergency for a little over a year now. “The rise was predictable”reports Mircea Sofonea, epidemiologist at the University of Montpellier and at the University Hospital of Nîmes, to theAFP. This one explains it by “an immune decline” of the population in general and “an immune escape” new sub-variants of the virus, however all considered as “members of the Omicron JN.1 lineage”.“There is no evidence to our knowledge that this new wave causes a greater health impact than the previous two”Mircea Sofonea adds so as not to incite panic as long as the evolution of the Covid-19 epidemic remains under control.
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However, the epidemiologist is fully aware that the “brewing”there “promiscuity” and the “friendly context” that should emerge during the Olympic Games “promotes the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, like other respiratory viruses”. Especially since this rebound is already observed in other countries bordering France and in the rest of Europe. As a reminder, the number of deaths since the start of the epidemic in 2020 is estimated at a little more than 167,000 just in France.
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