Key points
Epidemiological situation
In week 39, all the indicators continued to improve throughout the country, although the situation remained worrying in French Guiana:
- Metropolitan France:
- Improvement in epidemiological indicators in most of mainland France, with a few regional disparities
- Overseas France:
- French Guiana: high incidence rate and overburdened hospital services
- Martinique and Guadeloupe: falling incidence and hospitalisation rates
Variants
- Delta variant identified in 99% of sequenced samples in Flash Surveys on 7 and 14 September 2021
Contact tracing
- High regional disparities with the identification of transmission chains varying according to the region
Prevention
- On 5 October 2021, according to data from Vaccin Covid, 75.2% of the French population had received at least one vaccine dose, and 72.9% were fully vaccinated.
- Importance of combining different measures: vaccination in addition to contact tracing and preventive measures, especially in the current context marked by a lower respect of preventive measures
