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The Local and Haaretz articles date back from March. I had also commented on the Mulhouse Evangelical gathering back then.

The number of cases, people in hospital and in ICU beds, have been decreasing continuously nationwide for the past ten days now, including the northeastern "Grand Est" region, but it is still one of the heaviest hit regions in France, while the western and southwestern regions have been relatively spared.

The government has published a "de-confinement" map, or rather a series of color coded maps (would have been too simple, wouldn't it?) showing selected criteria, such as "virus in active circulation", "tension on the hospital beds, and ICU beds capacity", "percentage of ER visits with suspicion of C-19", etc... You can see that the "red zones" still skew heavily to the north and east of the country, plus of course, the heavily populated Paris region. The maps are supposed to be updated and revised daily. Regions in red will keep stricter measures, even after May 11, while the green ones will be more relaxed.

by Bernard (bernard) on Sat May 2nd, 2020 at 10:37:39 AM EST
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Like most of Europe, France appears to have the pandemic under control, provided pre-mature loosening of lock-downs doesn't allow infections to spike again. Ireland has just published a quite comprehensive 23 page staged relaxation of lock-down measures plan. Hopefully we won't have to roll back any of the measures.

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Sat May 2nd, 2020 at 11:39:04 AM EST
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Stop-and-go strategies, or "hammer and dance" as Tomas Pueyo describes them, could, in theory, prevent a second wave to spike again, provided that social distancing (with face masks) is well respected, plus a lot of testing and contact tracing to quickly isolate the infected people and quarantine the potentially infected ones. No easy stuff.
by Bernard (bernard) on Sat May 2nd, 2020 at 03:21:54 PM EST
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A second wave is inevitable.  Too many people are incapable of rational analysis.  

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
by ATinNM on Wed May 6th, 2020 at 03:16:32 PM EST
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