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