According to the official data published by the government of France, within a few hours, France became the sixth country to have 10 million covid-19 cases around the globe. Even after one year of the pandemic according to official data published on January 2, 2022.
France Becomes The Sixth Country With More Than 10 Million COVID-19 Infections
Hereby France along with India, Brazil, U.S.A, Britain, and Russia became the only countries in the world to have more than 10 million covid-19 cases. Within the last 24-hours, French health authorities reported 2,19,126 new confirmed cases. The health authorities of France confirmed that there was an exponential rise in covid cases for four days in a row around 2,00,000 cases per day. In the New Year’s Eve address to the nation, French President Emmanuel Macron did not mention a necessity for more harsh health measures than those which are already imposed, adding that the government should hold back from further limiting individual freedoms.
The French President Emmanuel Macron Warned the citizen of France that the next few weeks would be very crucial in controlling the covid cases. As restrictions were not imposed in the country during charismas and New Year’s Eve.
So as announced on January 1, 2022, by the government from January 3, 2022, onwards it will be mandatory to wear a mask and maintain social distancing while in public places for children of age 6 years and above which was previously for children of age 11 years and above. This step was taken so that Children’s education as well as shutting down of Schools is prevented as much as possible. Meanwhile, in some cities like Paris, Lyon, made it compulsory to wear a mask in public places for everyone After the new year’s celebration, the first day of 2022 welcomed France health care with a maximum number of cases as compared to Friday which had 2,32,200 cases in that single day.
The seven-day average of covid 19 cases in France comes out to be 157,651cases which is five-time the cases that would be usually coming in a month
The number of people that are hospitalized for COVID-19 has increased by 96 in 24 hours
The seven-day average of new daily deaths has reached 186, a high since May 14 as reported. France, along with Italy, Germany, and Spain, has recorded the highest covid-19 deaths in the European nation (EU). Although France gave relief on covid-19 guidelines for the people who are fully vaccinated and get covid positive the isolation time for such kind of people (fully vaccinated) is reduced to seven days instead of 10 days as earlier. But they can leave the quarantine within 5 days as well if they have a negative RT-PCR or antigen test report
Unvaccinated people will have to undergo quarantine for 10 days. However, they can come out of it with a negative result despite covid-19 rules relaxation, people must follow protective measures and undergo regular testing as suggested by the health authorities, French Health Minister Olivier Véran said in an interview.
Due to this pandemic, the French government is struggling between economic concerns and public health care. These changes in the guidelines for covid 19 restrictions are made so that the government of France to have a “Benefit-risk balance” so that the social as well the economical life of the people are not affected by the virus.
The Omicron variant is a new wave of covid-19 infections around the globe. The new variant COVID-19 Omicron was too contagious to be stopped unless a “strict lockdown” is imposed, But the Health authorities in several nations are being optimistic as this new variant turns into higher hospitalization rates.
