Mutant virus: massive tests in Bagneux

All day long, the line has been uninterrupted, because the inhabitants of Bagneux are worried. After the discovery on Thursday of a case linked to the English variant in a school, a massive screening campaign was launched throughout the city. Many children attending school in the establishment came this Saturday. Faced with concerns, the mayor, Marie-Hélène Amiable, is reassuring. But what will happen if in a few days new cases of the mutant virus are detected? Should we worry about it?

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Doctor Benjamin Davido, infectious disease specialist at the Raymond-Poincaré hospital in La Garches (Hauts-de-Seine), tempers: “This variant, it has a capacity to transmit more, that is to say from 40 to 70% and especially among young populations. That is not going to say that it will give more serious forms and more symptoms, but which can, arithmetically, increase the number of cases “.

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