Key points
In week 11, circulation of SARS-CoV-2 continued to rise throughout French territories, while hospital admissions remained stable across all services.
- Metropolitan France:
- Incidence rate increasing in all age groups,especially among older populations
- Positivity rate very high and rising
- Intensive care admissions and deaths decreasing
- Incidence rate still high in Martinique (>1,000/100,000) despite a strong decrease
- Incidence rate in Reunion Island high (>1,000) and slightly rising
Variants
- Omicron accounted for 99.9% of interpretable sequences in the Flash Survey of 7 March for week 10
- BA.2 sub-lineage in majority (73% in week 10)
Contact tracing
- Rise in the number of cases (+38%) and contacts (+24%)
- Cases more frequently report visiting public places conducive to virus transmission in the context of lifted restrictions
Prevention
- Vaccination on 21 March 2022 (Vaccin Covid data):
- 79.4% of the French population had completed a primary vaccination series
- 73.1% of the 18+ age group and 83.1% of the 65+ age group had received a booster shot
- Importance of combining measures:
- Complete vaccination programme with a booster, including a second dose for eligible persons, especially those aged 80 and over, residents of nursing homes and people suffering from immunodeficiency
- Maintaining protective measures such as wearing a mask, especially in closed areas or in the presence of vulnerable people, washing hands, and frequent ventilation of enclosed spaces
