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Lately, the country conducts more than a million tests a week, however, critics say it takes too long to get effects as cases and hospitalizations increase.
By Aurelien Breeden
PARIS – France faces a worrying increase in the coronavirus crisis, the government said Friday, warning that the number of new cases was developing and that hospitals were experiencing an increase in admissions.
Many citizens were expecting further restrictions, especially after the government’s clinical council said this week that the government is taking “difficult action. “
But the government has not announced new rules, instead promising the country’s vast testing program, which has been delayed in recent weeks, and urging the French to continue social estating measures.
The number of new cases has recently soared in France, where nearly 31,000 other people have died from coronavirus to date. The country has recorded around 54,000 new cases in the last seven days, less than Spain, but more than other neighbouring countries such as Italy or Germany.
On Thursday, there were about 10,000 new instances shown, a record since the start of the pandemic. The increase in the number of new instances is partly attributed to widespread testing, but the rate of positivity for such tests has also increased. is 5. 4% this week, compared to 1. 5 at the end of July, meaning the virus is also gaining speed.
Jean Castex, the French prime minister, said in a televised clash Friday that the government was involved in an additional increase in the number of hospitalizations, especially of the elderly.
“This shows that there is no Maginot line,” Castex said, speaking after a special assembly of cabinets to talk about France’s reaction to coronavirus, referring to national fortifications built in the 1930s. Although the virus still spreads basically among young people, he said, “inevitably” it ends up reaching more vulnerable segments of the population.
Other young people are less likely to expand the severe bureaucracy of Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, which has so far limited the effect of cases on the French fitness system.
But last week, the increase in the number of cases was the highest among those 75 years of age or older, who saw a 44% increase over the past week, according to the national fitness authority, which noted in a recent report that young adults were “less systematic” relative to social distance.
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