Key points

Epidemiological situation

In week 40, the situation continued to improve throughout the country, although the improvement in the indicators was smaller and the trend was stabilizing in some regions.

• Metropolitan France:

  • Stable incidence and hospitalization rates in some regions

  • R number <1 but rising for the third consecutive week, indicating increased circulation of the virus

• Overseas France:

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

  • Martinique: persistently high incidence and hospitalization rates

Variants

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

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

• CoviPrev Survey (September 28–October 5, 2021):

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

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

  • 60% of respondents in favor of the health pass

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