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A clinical metapsychology of the notion of event is considered in connection with the Covid-19 pandemic. After defining the event as that which results in a bifurcation, the genealogical event in the life cycle is distinguished from the fortuitous event. The clinical example of adolescence is a genealogical event both at the individual level of the adolescent and at the group level of containing family meshing. There is reciprocal support between the individual psychic containers and the family and social group containers. The clinical analysis of the event is not merely a triggering fact/piece of information; the event is the expression of an event-based process involving a singular and group transcontaining approach. It is from this psychoanalytic perspective of links that the notions of “crisis”, “in-crisis” and “catastrophe” are examined. Based on the shared experience of the arrival of solar electric energy in the cosmogony of an Amerindian community in Amazonia, the author looks at what constitutes an event and manifests itself by an epidemic of suicides. He takes up the hypothesis of Émile Durkheim on the lack of regulation in a society in a state of “unhealthy disequilibrium”. He compares the notion of the group psychic organiser of containing and the group Ego-Ideal. The clinical analysis of the Covid-19 event puts to the test the metagaranteeing function of protection of sufficiently secure containing.