Covid-19: a health defense council is scheduled for Wednesday – Franceinfo

A health defense council is scheduled for Wednesday, Emmanuel Macron announced Monday, November 22 on the sidelines of a trip to the Whirlpool factory in Amiens. “We advance in the light of science with pragmatism”, commented the Head of State. This meeting comes at the height of the acceleration of Covid-19 contaminations. The current progression of the fifth wave is “dazzling”, warned government spokesman Gabriel Attal on Sunday on Europe 1, CNews and The echoes. However, he weighed “elements that can worry us and elements that can make us confident”.

On an average calculated over 7 days, the number of new daily cases has almost doubled in one week: it was 18,189 Sunday, November 21, against 10,023 the previous Sunday. That is an increase of 81.4%. And this increase is exponential, a sign that the epidemic is starting again. Before that, it had taken three weeks for the number of daily cases to increase by the same amount. But as in previous waves, the issue is whether this surge in infections will lead to a massive influx to the hospital. For now, this is not the case, which the authorities attribute to vaccination, which remains effective in preventing severe forms of Covid-19.