Covid France, peak incidence among children

Within a week, in France the incidence rate of coronavirus infections among children between the ages of 6 and 10 has multiplied by 2.5 and is currently at 340 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants, against a national average for adults stopped at 191. The French press reports it, recalling that on November 8 it was at 80. The rate of infections among children between 11 and 14 years of age is also higher than the general average, with 208 cases. Yesterday, the Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, announced that six thousand classes have been closed due to the infections. Doctors insist on the need to vaccinate children: “We must ask ourselves the problem: it is also a way to prevent children from transmitting the virus to more fragile people, such as grandparents or people close to them, suffering from serious diseases” says Jean-Michel Molina, head of the infectious disease department at the Saint-Louis hospital, which is part of the public consortium of university hospitals in the Paris area, quoted by Bfmtv.