Key points

Epidemiological situation

In week 40, the situation continued to improve throughout the country but with a smaller improvement in the indicators and a stabilising trend in some regions.

• Metropolitan France:

  • Stable incidence and hospitalisation rates in some regions

  • R number <1 but on the rise for the third consecutive week, indicating a higher circulation of the virus

• Overseas France:

  • French Guiana: falling but high incidence rate, with overburdened hospital services

  • Martinique: persistent high incidence and hospitalisation rates

Variants

• Delta variant identified in 99% of sequenced samples in Flash Surveys on 14 and 21 September 2021

Contact tracing

• Slight decrease in the proportion of previously known cases identified as contacts in the last two weeks

• Drop in the number of cases attending school

Prevention

• On 12 October, 75.6% of the French population had received at least one vaccine dose, and 73.5% were fully vaccinated (Vaccin Covid data)

• CoviPrev Survey (28 September-5 October 2021):

  • Systematic adoption of preventive measures stable since the previous wave (31 August-7 September)

  • Stable proportion of respondents (13%) reporting their intention not to be vaccinated

  • 60% of respondents in favour of the health pass

• Importance of combining different measures: vaccination, adherence to contact tracing, and respect of preventive measures