Key Points

In Week 39, indicators continued to improve at the national level, though the situation in French Guiana remains concerning.

• Mainland France:

  • Epidemiological indicators declined across nearly all of mainland France, with some regional variations

• Overseas territories:

  • French Guiana: incidence rate remains high and hospital capacity remains severely strained

  • Martinique and Guadeloupe: incidence and hospitalization rates are declining

Variants

• 99% of cases identified as the Delta variant through sequencing during investigations on September 7 and 14, 2021

Contact tracing

• Significant regional variation in indicators, with identification of transmission chains varying by region

Prevention

• As of October 5, 2021, according to data from Vaccin Covid, 75.2% of the population had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and 72.9% were fully vaccinated

• Importance of combined measures: vaccination without relaxing adherence to contact tracing and preventive measures in a context of declining compliance with preventive measures

Learn more

• See our report on the COVID-19 pandemic

• Visit our page on variants

• Visit our page on contact tracing

• Visit our page on the CoviPrev survey

• See other national epidemiological updates