The situation in France
Optimism is in order in Europe, where life is resuming its rights. Before Ireland on Monday, the lifting of restrictions imposed by the coronavirus continues on Saturday in France, where the epidemic is now "controlled", according to health authorities.
The Covid-19 caused 46 new deaths in hospitals in France in 24 hours, bringing to 29,111 the total number of deaths since the start of the epidemic, according to the daily report released Friday by the Directorate General of Health. This assessment does not include deaths in social and medico-social establishments, for which the last figures published date back to Tuesday and whose next update is scheduled for June 9.
The battle of France against the Covid-19
1,094 patients with a severe form of COVID-19 are hospitalized in intensive care, 69 fewer patients compared to Thursday. Four regions (Ile de France, Grand-Est, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Hauts-de-France) account for 76% of patients hospitalized in intensive care.
On Saturday, Secretary of State for Digital Cédric O told RMC that the French contact tracing application against the StopCovid coronavirus "has passed the milestone of one million users". The State Secretariat for Digital has told AFP that the figure of one million corresponds to "activations" of the application, and not to simple downloads. The bar was crossed "at 7:30 am this morning," it was said from the same source. The effectiveness of the smartphone application depends on the number of people who use it, even if the government considers it useful "from the first downloads". "We have no specific objective" in terms of the number of users, said Cédric O on Saturday morning. But the application is "particularly useful" for people living in urban areas, "who take public transport and go to bars and restaurants," he said.
StopCovid allows its users to be warned if they have encountered another user infected with coronavirus in the previous two weeks. The alert is triggered if the smartphones of the two people have crossed within a meter, for more than 15 minutes.
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