Good news ! According to Jean-François Delfraissy, soon to be former president of the Scientific Council who has spent the last few months carefully monitoring the evolution of the Covid-19 coronavirus, the epidemic peak of the seventh wave has now passed. In any case, this is what he said in front of the microphones of France Info, this Friday, July 22, 2022… not without however specifying that “the epidemic is not over”. The hospital situation, to name only it still appears quite unstable.

In this regard, Jean-François Delfraissy is crystal clear: in the hospital, the epidemic peak has not yet passed. “It has passed in terms of contaminations but as you know now, there is always a lag of around a fortnight between contaminations and hospitalizations”, he recalls.

Several signs suggest, in the eyes of the expert, that the epidemic is likely to continue in the future. “We have been dealing with the Omicron variant, since the end of December, and with these little cousins ​​that are B1, BA2, BA4, BA5, which are very transmissible. It shows that this virus continues to evolve and that the epidemic is not over”, he underlines.

Fortunately, continues the Chairman of the Council, the variant does not show sufficient severity to worry the authorities. “Everything collapses if we are dealing with a virus that is severe,” he warns.

That being said, it is not because the epidemic peak has now been passed in almost the entire country that we can say of all the departments that they are doing well. A number of them still show a very high incidence rate, recalled CovidTracker on July 22, 2022. The list in our slideshow that you will find below.