France’s Prime Minister Jean Castex told parliament on Tuesday that France had entered the third wave of the COVID-19 epidemic. Also said that for the first time since November 20 last year, average new cases have gone above 25,000 in the last seven days.
French health officials reported 29,975 new cases on Tuesday. This figure is 4.5 percent higher than last Tuesday. France is grappling with a steady increase in new cases. There is a huge rush of patients in hospitals due to the ever increasing cases. Health experts say that this can be avoided only with the new lockdown.
France says it has entered third #COVID19 wave, as the seven-day average of new cases rose above 25,000 for the first time since November: Reuters
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Like other countries of the European Union, France has lagged far behind the United States and Britain in vaccinating its people. However, President Emmanuel Macron is still hoping that the vaccination campaign will prevent the effects of the wave of this new epidemic and avoid France from imposing a third national lockdown.
At the same time, stopping the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine on Monday for security concerns may jeopardize the French government’s strategy.
More than 91 thousand people lost their lives from Corona
Jerome Solomon, head of the National Health Agency, said that France’s ICU has the highest number of people admitted with COVID-19 and other diseases. Corona patients are being treated on a large number of ICU beds. 91,170 people have died due to Covid-19 in France, which is the seventh-highest death toll in the world.