The monitoring indicators for the COVID-19 epidemic in France “continue to deteriorate”, the General Directorate of Health (DGS) warned on Thursday, with a number of new confirmed cases which “is increasing regularly”.
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Over the last 24 hours, 2,669 additional cases have been detected (against 2,524 on Wednesday), notes the DGS in its daily update.
And the increase in the number of these cases, between August 3 and 9, “is more important among 15-44 years (+ 46%)” in metropolitan France, notes the body in its weekly update also released Thursday.
The DGS also underlines a “number of people hospitalized in increase for three weeks, in particular among under 40 years” in metropolitan France, where “the situation is worrying”.
In the French territories of Guyana (South America) and Mayotte (Indian Ocean), the epidemic is “on the decline, but still at a high level of vulnerability”.
In Paris, six proven cases of COVID-19 were detected among the employees of the French distributor of electronic, household appliances and cultural products Fnac and several of these people were placed in isolation, while cases were also identified at the Galleries Lafayette, one of the Parisian department stores, we learned Thursday from concordant sources.
In this context, several players in the medical world have called for the general wearing of protective masks in companies. Some union officials were also quite favorable to this measure.
In addition, fifty gendarmes from Tarbes, out of a platoon of 82, who returned from a mission in Polynesia, a French territory in the Pacific Ocean, were declared positive for COVID-19, according to the Hautes-Pyrénées prefecture ( South West).
In total, 30,388 people have died in France (17 more in 24 hours).
The DGS also reports 201 hospital admissions in 24 hours, against 143 additional hospitalizations on Wednesday. On the other hand, on the resuscitation side, 374 patients are counted (five less than the day before).