Daily Covid-19 contaminations are increasing in France, driven by the BA.5 sub-variant, which has become the majority.
The seventh wave has indeed arrived in France, in the wake of those observed in Portugal or South Africa in recent months, and according to experts, it will hit the country hard at the end of July, in the heart of the summer holidays.
The new Minister of Health François Braun announced it during the day, during a hearing in the Assembly: the latest assessment of the coronavirus in France, dated this Tuesday, July 5, 2022, exceeded 200,000 new cases in 24 hours.
These are 206,554 cases exactly which have been counted in the latest figures, or 59,306 more than last Tuesday.
The 7-day average increases to 118,991 cases recorded daily against 110,519 on Monday and the incidence rate at 1,141.12 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in France currently (1,101.36 on Monday).
The number of deaths recorded in 24 hours at the hospital is 75 dead (excluding Ehpad), or 22 less than the day before but 38 more than last Tuesday, while we are now approaching the bar of 150,000 deaths since the start of the epidemic in France.