Key Points

In Week 32, SARS-CoV-2 continued to circulate widely across the country, with a limited increase in the incidence rate and hospital indicators in mainland France, but a very critical situation in Martinique and Guadeloupe.

• Slowdown in the rise of hospitalizations and critical care admissions in mainland France

• Very high testing rate, rising sharply

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• Mainland France:

  • Incidence and hospitalization rates remain highest in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur

• Overseas territories:

  • Guadeloupe: very high incidence rate and rising

  • Martinique: high incidence rate, decreasing very slightly

  • Persistent strain on hospitals and excess mortality from all causes and across all age groups in these two territories

Variants

• 98.7% of cases identified as the Delta variant through sequencing in mainland France as of August 3, 2021

Contact tracing

• Decrease in the number of reported contacts, suggesting a decline in the completeness of contact tracing

Prevention

• Vaccination coverage in the general population as of August 17: 69.5% for one dose and 59.3% for full vaccination

• CoviPrev survey from July 15 to 21:

  • Sleep problems decreasing for the first time in a year

  • Depressive symptoms have been decreasing since late April

• Importance of combined measures: vaccination, preventive measures, and contact tracing

Learn more

• See our report on the Covid-19 pandemic

• Visit our page on variants

• Visit our page on contact tracing

• See other national epidemiological updates