COVID-19: 29,748 patients currently hospitalized in France, including 3,776 in intensive care
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While the number of new daily cases remains very high because of the omicron variant, the vaccination pass replaces the health pass from France on Monday in France.
12:30 p.m..Questions around the 4th dose.If some countries like Israel have already passed the course, France does not yet seem ready to administer a 4th dose of vaccine.The scientific council recommends waiting for more data before deciding on a possible new injection for the elderly and fragile.Our decryption on the subject can be found here.
12:15.New cases in China ten days before. Pékin a signalé de nouvelles contaminations pour le septième jour consécutif alors que la capitale chinoise s’apprête à accueillir les Jeux olympiques d’hiver en février, indique le Guardian.The City reported six new infections transmitted locally with confirmed symptoms, after having identified nine a day earlier, according to data from the National Health Commission (NHC).Since January 15, the city has identified a total of 36 local symptomatic cases.
12:05. La fin de la phase sévère de la pandémie en 2022 ? Il est possible de mettre fin à la phase aiguë de la pandémie cette année, affirme le chef de l’OMS, même si le Covid-19 provoque un décès toutes les 12 secondes dans le monde.He nevertheless warned that "it is dangerous to assume that (the very contagious variant) omicron will be the last varying or to speak of the end of the game", because the conditions are "ideal" currently in the world so that other variantsemerge, including more transmitted and more virulent variants, insists Tedros adhanom ghebreyesus.
11:50 am. Le passe vaccinal « ne sera pas une contrainte supplémentaire », assure Didier Chenet, président du GNI, syndicat patronal des indépendants de l’hôtellerie-restauration, dans la mesure où « nous n’avons pas un contrôle systématique à faire entre le porteur du passe et l’identité de la personne », a-t-il dit sur Europe 1.Earlier in the morning, the Minister of the Economy had confirmed that controls should be done in case of doubt.
11:30 am.A Hong Kong airline will lose up to 193 million dollars a month in February. En janvier, les vols de fret de Cathay Pacific - l’un des rares secteurs où la compagnie gagnait encore de l’argent - ont été réduits à 20 % de leur capacité prépandémique, tandis que les vols de passagers ne représentaient plus que 2 %, a déclaré lundi son PDG, Augustus Tang.Like China, Hong Kong applies a strict “zero covid” strategy which has maintained very low contaminations, but almost cut this international center of finance of the rest of the world in the past two years.
A recent Omicron home - The first to be detected in the city - whose origin according to the police would be a Cathay crew which violated its compulsory quarantine period, prompted the authorities to strongly harden the already very binding restrictions of whichThe closure of nurseries and primary schools.
11:10 am."Inhale God, exhale fear".Thousands of Americans have taken up the streets of Washington to protest against the obligations to be vaccinated against the COVVI-19."Obligations (vaccine) and freedoms are not compatible.Like water and oil, "says a speaker on the Lincoln Memorial steps, the imposing white marble building dedicated to the 16th President of the United States."Breathe", urge another."Inhale God, exhale fear", ajoute-t-il sous les applaudissements de la foule, des Américains de tous âges, non masqués, parfois accompagnés d’enfants.
10:42 am.TGV restoration services and intercités closed until February 15.While the measure was to end this Sunday, according to the announcements presented by Jean Castex at its press conference on December 27, the SNCF recalls that the catering and TGV services will remain suspended until February 15.
10:20."This wave will now start to regress". Pour Thierry Breton, commissaire européen au marché intérieur, si cette cinquième vague régresse et « qu’on va pouvoir revenir à une vie normale », il y « aura évidemment d’autres variants », a-t-il prédit sur BFMTV.
9:50 am.A new protocol for the Beijing Olympics. « En consultation avec les experts médicaux et le Comité international olympique », pressé de questions à ce sujet depuis des jours, Pékin-2022 et le gouvernement chinois ont « affiné » leur gestion sanitaire « pour mieux l’adapter à l’environnement actuel et soutenir les participants aux Jeux ».From the first PCR tests carried out at the airport, then daily, only positive detected persons with a "CT threshold" less than 35 will be considered as such and placed in isolation in dedicated rooms, specifies the press release.The presence of COVVI-19 being detected by successive "zooms" in the sample taken, a high number of genetic amplification cycles (so-called CT) makes it possible to find traces of virus even in a patient who no longer presents contagious risk.
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According to these new measures, any participant in the games detected by a CT value test greater than or equal to 35 will be treated as a "close contact case", therefore will escape isolation and can work or train, while being testedtwice a day.The same close surveillance will apply to people who were first deemed positive and isolated, then will have presented two negative tests spaced at least 24 hours.
9:35 am."Essential workers" in the street.The CFDT will organize on Thursday February 3 in Paris a “essential workers' march, in order to highlight these insufficiently recognized employees, announced its secretary general Laurent Berger on France Inter Monday."This health crisis, if it has had an advantage is that these essential workers have been looked at, these workers who every day make the economy work, make society work," he said.These workers are likely to move away from the job market if they are not recognized "in the state of mind of society, but also in terms of wages, career course," heargued.
9:15 am.The vaccination pass "a strong incentive to logical vaccination" with omicron. Pour Alain Fischer, le monsieur « vaccin » du gouvernement », cette mesure se justifie par la circulation encore très élevée du virus."We are not yet at the end of the epidemic, which is also serious.Omicron is less severe, but there are so many cases!"He said in the newspaper 20 minutes.
8:50 am.1.5 million tests per day.After falling, tests today cap at 1.5 million per week.The government anticipates an invoice of more than a billion euros for this screening.
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8:35 am."As long as there are restrictions, there are aids".Asked about the lifting of restriction measures in France, the minister assures that "aid" will remain in place for sectors affected by the crisis: caterers, tourism ... "As soon as there are no more restrictions, he n'There is more reason to maintain aid.But will I cut the wire?We will stay in touch, ”says Bruno Le Maire.
8:33 am. Y aura-t-il des sanctions contre les restaurateurs qui refusent de contrôler leurs clients ? « Ils peuvent contrôler lorsqu’il y a un doute.(…) A customer who resists, who does not agree, it will be in the interest of the restaurateur to verify his identity, to verify that he will not contaminate his employees, the other customers ”, replies BrunoThe mayor, Minister of the Economy, guest of Franceinfo."The vaccination pass protects restaurateurs because it avoids contamination and allows you to remain open".
8:20 am.3,506 Americans victims of the COVID on Sunday, more than September 11.According to epidemiologist Éric Feigl-Ding, the number of deaths due to the disease exceeds those caused by the attacks."Yes, we all want the pandemic to be finished, but we cannot arbitrarily decide if the covid is finished," he wrote on Twitter.
8:05 am.In Canada, a "convoy of freedom".Dozens of Canadian truckers have started a long journey to Ottawa to denounce the obligation to be vaccinated against COVVI-19 to cross the Canadian-American border.Canada and the United States now impose the Vaccinal Passport against COVVI-19 to cross this border, the longest in the world with almost 9,000 km.This measure came into force on January 15 in Canada and last Saturday in the United States.
To protest against these measures, several dozen Canadian truckers set off in convoy Sunday from Vancouver, on the Pacific side, to the Federal capital some 4,400 km further east, Canadian media reported.
7:50 am. Plus de 5,58 millions de morts dans le monde. La pandémie a fait au moins 5 589 818 morts dans le monde depuis fin décembre 2019, selon un bilan établi par l’AFP à partir de sources officielles.In absolute value, the countries that have recorded the most deaths are the United States (865,968), Brazil (623,097), India (489,409) and Russia (326,112).The World Health Organization considers, taking into account the excess mortality directly and indirectly linked to the COVID-19, that the report of the pandemic could be two to three times higher than that officially identified.
7:35 am."This virus has taken us short each time".Doctor Jimmy Mohamed, columnist at the health magazine reacts on France Info to the WHO declaration on the "plausible" end of the pandemic."Even with a more contagious variant, [the number of patients in resuscitation] decreases.But we must remain cautious, ”he warns."This virus has taken us short each time".
7:25 am.COVVID celebrates its two years in France. C’est un anniversaire dont on se serait bien passé.Two years ago today, one Friday evening, two first cases of Covid were announced by Agnès Buzyn.
7:15 am.How schools faced COVVI. Quatre pays dans le monde n’ont jamais eu recours à la fermeture de leurs écoles depuis deux ans : la Biélorussie, le Burundi, Nauru et le Tadjikistan.Conversely, those who have closed their schools the longest, that is to say more than 60 weeks, are Bangladesh, Kuwait, the Philippines, Uganda and Venezuela.France, with a total closure of 7 weeks and partial of 5 weeks, is one of the 10 % of the countries of the world which have closed their schools the least.
7 hours."I held up to the end, but it was no longer possible".We went to meet the last-minute immune to a center of Aulnay-sous-Bois in Seine-Saint-Denis.An article to read here.
6:40.A single positive hamster in Hong Kong. Les autorités hongkongaises ont déclaré dimanche qu’un seul des 77 hamsters remis par leurs propriétaires au gouvernement avait été testé positif au Covid-19 dans le cadre la campagne d’abattage mise en place après l’apparition de cas positifs dans une animalerie de la ville.
More than 2,000 hamsters were slaughtered as a precautionary title "after some of them, imported from the Netherlands by a local pet store, had been tested positive for COVI.
6:30 am.Implementation of the vaccination pass.This is D -Day to replace the sanitary pass and to understand everything about the new rules in place, here is the paper that you must read.
6:20.Hello and welcome. Retrouvez dans notre direct dédié à l’actualité du Covid-19 toutes les informations sur la pandémie de ce lundi 24 janvier.
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