Key Points

In Week 38, all indicators continued to improve across all regions, except in French Guiana, where the situation remains very
concerning.

• Mainland France:

  • Decrease in epidemiological indicators across all regions

• Overseas territories:

  • French Guiana: high and rising incidence rate accompanied by significant strain on hospitals

  • Martinique and Guadeloupe: incidence and hospitalization rates are decreasing

Variants

99% of cases identified as the Delta variant through sequencing during investigations on August 31 and September 7, 2021

Contact tracing

Increase in the proportion of cases previously identified as contacts

Prevention

• As of September 27, 2021, according to data from Vaccin Covid, 74.9% of the population has received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and 72.2% is fully vaccinated

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