Covid-19: incidence rate in France down for the first time in more than a month
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The spread of the Delta variant around the world continues to lead to new restrictions as the global vaccination campaign continues. In France, Emmanuel Macron continues his communication on social networks to encourage the youngest to be vaccinated.
1:53 p.m. New record of Covid cases in Iran with more than 39,000 new contaminations in 24 hours. Iran has recorded a new record of Covid-19 infections in the space of 24 hours, with 39,000 new cases according to official data released on Tuesday. By the very admission of national health authorities, the official statistics on the epidemic are largely underestimated. On Monday, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the National Virus Control Committee to take "necessary measures" to contain what the government presents as a "fifth wave" of the epidemic.
In Iran, the vaccination campaign is not progressing as quickly as the authorities would like. More than 10.7 million people have received a first dose of the vaccine, while only 2.8 million have received the necessary two injections, the health ministry said on Tuesday. Iran has approximately 83 million inhabitants.
1:44 p.m. Who will be entitled to a 3rd dose of vaccine at the start of the school year? People in Ehpad vaccinated at the very beginning? All the elderly? "Arbitrations are expected next week", replies the Ministry of Health, while scientists do not recommend a 3rd dose in the general population, in the absence of data to establish whether this will be necessary. The High Authority for Health must issue a new opinion by the end of August.
1:38 p.m. The number of vaccinations carried out in one week still exceeds 4 million. The last two weeks have seen the number of vaccinations reach records not seen since the start of the campaign. 4.3 million vaccinations (including 60% of first injections) were carried out last week, versus 4.8 million the previous week. This is “not as much” as what the stocks allowed but it still represents “a very high level” for the end of July, the Ministry of Health tells us.
1:10 p.m. Half of the total population of the European Union is fully vaccinated against Covid-19. 50% of the total population of the EU is fully vaccinated against Covid-19, minors included. In total, this represents 223.8 million people who received two doses, a single dose after recovering or a single dose vaccine. On Monday, the proportion of adults having completed their vaccination reached 60% in the EU.
12:54 p.m. Demonstrations against the health pass: victims of violence, pharmacies call for appeasement. "Faced with an escalation of violence against community pharmacies and the professionals working there", the actors of the profession condemn "strongly these acts" and call Tuesday for appeasement.
“While fears regarding the vaccine and the deprivation of freedoms can be expressed, the health professions, fully committed since the start of the epidemic to protect the French people as well as possible, must in no case suffer the costs of such acts, shocking and intolerable. Nothing can justify such actions”, denounce in a joint press release the National Order of Pharmacists and the unions FSPF (Federation of Pharmaceutical Unions of France), USPO (Union of Unions of Pharmacy Pharmacies) and ANEPF (l National Association of Pharmacy Students of France).
This weekend, in fact, pharmacies were taken to task. In Montpellier in particular, demonstrators attacked a pharmacist who was carrying out screenings for Covid-19 in a tent provided for this purpose.
12:30 p.m. Compulsory vaccination of caregivers: a call for a national strike launched from August 4. The SUD Santé Sociaux union is calling for an indefinite strike, denouncing the obligation for caregivers to be vaccinated from September 15. “We are not against vaccination but it must remain a free choice”, specifies in Figaro Jean-Marc Devauchelle, general secretary of the union. The strike has already started in several cities, such as Lyon, where white coats and citizens gathered in front of the Edouard-Herriot hospital. Report from our special correspondent to read here.
12:18 p.m. Covid-19: terminals soon at the entrance to restaurants to scan the health pass? It may not be to a waiter that you present your health pass. Doovision, a company specializing in UV disinfection, has developed a terminal capable of scanning the QR code at the entrance to establishments. All the details in our article to read here.
12:05 p.m. The army is deploying a military resuscitation module to strengthen the Fort-de-France University Hospital in the face of the strong epidemic tension of Covid-19 on the island.
11:41 a.m. A zoo-refuge in Eure-et-Loir given formal notice to apply the health pass. The Eure-et-Loir prefecture issued a final warning on Monday to La Tanière, a zoo-refuge in Nogent le Phaye. In a press release, the prefect Françoise Souliman writes that she "regrets the situation in which the operator of the zoo-refuge La Tanière has placed himself: by placing himself outside the law and calling for civil disobedience, he is harming to the future of his business and to the cause he defends, the welfare of the animals he collects". La Tanière has 48 hours to apply the health pass, under penalty of administrative closure. The head of the zoo has so far put forward economic arguments to justify his refusal.
11:21 a.m. Sanitary pass at the hospital: the clinic responds to the paramedic who accused him of refusing an examination to a lady. In a video posted on July 29, a paramedic accused a clinic in Evreux of having refused to take care of a patient who had "a heart problem" because she did not have a health pass. It has been viewed over 250,000 times on Twitter. The clinic spoke about the controversy with France Bleu. According to her, the patient had to perform an examination, planned upstream, which was postponed because she could not present a negative test. So it doesn't really have anything to do with the health pass, since for some time now you have had to present a negative test for certain procedures at the hospital. The clinic still insists that this procedure would not have been applied if the patient had been in an emergency situation.
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10:47 a.m. Wearing a compulsory mask is back in 22 municipalities in Finistère. The list goes on and on. A new department has decided to make wearing a mask compulsory in certain municipalities: Finistère. Are concerned in particular Brest, Quimper, Douarnenez, or Crozon (excluding beaches). This measure runs from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., for all people aged 11 or over, from Tuesday to August 31.
10:34 a.m. Hérault: gatherings of more than 10 people prohibited on the beach from midnight. Faced with a large wave of Covid-19 cases in Hérault, the prefecture announced Monday that from Tuesday, and until August 15, gatherings of more than 10 people would be prohibited from midnight to 6 a.m. on all coastal beaches. In a press release, the prefect Hugues Moutouh explains that he made this decision after noting that barrier gestures were not respected during these gatherings, no more than the ban on consuming alcohol on the public highway in certain cities.
9:55 a.m. Valérie Rabault, president of the PS group in the National Assembly, pleads again for compulsory vaccination for all. The leader of the PS deputies defended Tuesday on France Inter "compulsory vaccination for all adults", in order to achieve collective immunity against Covid-19. Reiterating this proposal formulated in mid-July by the Socialist deputies and senators, she argued that this would be "a clear rule, which can be implemented in a concerted manner and would make it possible to reach 90% of the vaccinated population. Valérie Rabault thus underlines her opposition to the health pass implemented by the government, "which is not a good way of doing things since it opposes the French to each other, divides them".
9:41 a.m. Emmanuel Macron continues to answer questions on social media. In a new video posted on TikTok and Instagram, the President of the Republic responded to one of the most frequently seen statements against the vaccine against Covid-19: "we don't have enough perspective". He recalled the history of vaccines in France, and especially of the messenger RNA technique, used to develop the Pfizer vaccine for example. You can also read here our decryption on the question of hindsight on vaccines.
9:32 a.m. Sweden is banking on a booster vaccine in 2022. Sweden plans to offer a booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to “a large part of the population” in 2022, although it could start with populations vulnerable as early as this fall, health authorities announced on Tuesday. The final decision is yet to be made, however, the Public Health Agency said, as several countries announced their intention to offer an additional dose in the face of the breakthrough of the Delta variant and concerns over reduced efficacy. vaccines in relation to observed or future mutations.
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9:18 a.m. Philippe Juvin says he is “reserved” on Emmanuel Macron’s message broadcast on TikTok and Instagram. “I am very reserved about this type of presidential communication, it is the return of the epidemiologist president. It risks blurring the messages, ”declared the head of emergencies at the Georges-Pompidou hospital and candidate for the Elysée Palace for the future LR primary at the microphone of RTL. He denounces ineffective communication on vaccines against Covid-19: “There is hypercommunication for sure, but this hypercommunication never answers the key question that a certain number of French people are asking themselves: “Is is it dangerous to have the vaccine? "".
9:05 a.m. United States: vaccination target met, but a month late. The United States on Monday reached the rate of 70% of adults having received at least one dose of anti-Covid vaccine, nearly one months after the target date set by President Biden, when hospitalizations reach levels comparable to last summer's surge.
Data from the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), the main public health agency in the United States, also shows that 60.6% of adults and 49.7% of the general population are now fully vaccinated. Joe Biden had initially announced the objective of reaching the figure of 70% on July 4, the day of the American national holiday. But the slowdown in the vaccination campaign, particularly in traditionally conservative parts of the South and Midwest, as well as among younger, impoverished, and ethnic minority populations, has prevented the country from reaching that goal.
9 o'clock. Australia: Unpaid leave for 2,500 Qantas employees. Qantas airline announces that it will ask 2,500 of its employees to take unpaid leave, a measure intended to cope with a drop of activity following the new epidemic wave in the country. Pilots, crew members and airport employees of Qantas and its low-cost subsidiary Jetstar will be affected from mid-August for an estimated period of two months,
8:50 a.m. A third dose of “inevitable” vaccine. “The third dose (of vaccine) is inevitable. I note in passing that the laboratories have increased the prices, which is very shocking, ”says infectious disease specialist Gilles Pialoux.
8:40 a.m. "The hospital is half on its knees". Gilles Pialoux considers that "the hospital is half on its knees" between leave and work stoppages linked to the exhaustion of caregivers, while a new wave has arrived with the Delta variant. “The virus is master of time. No one saw this wave coming in terms of intensity, even if there is a lag between contamination and the number of deaths. This variant is the race against the clock. We are behind on vaccination. He also wants France to move towards compulsory vaccination for the entire population.
8:35 a.m. Avoid "dissonances". Asked on LCI about the question-and-answer videos in which the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron launched himself on Instagram and TikTok, Gilles Pialoux, infectiologist, head of the infectious diseases department of the Tenon Hospital in Paris, recalls that “political speech has lost a lot of credibility in this crisis. We need a pedagogy adapted to young people. Whether it's politicians, journalists, scientists, we need to have common language elements, that we don't have dissonances ”.
8:10 a.m. Incidence greater than 400 in Corse-du-Sud. The incidence rate of Covid-19 now exceeds 400 per 100,000 inhabitants in Corse-du-Sud. This department joins the ten others experiencing an identical situation.
8 hours. The “pariahs” of the crisis? In a demonstration in Lyon last Saturday, caregivers are worried about the vaccination obligation and the risk of dismissal that goes with it. “So we went from heroes to pariahs? asks one of them. A protester explains her feelings. Failing to receive the FFP2 masks she had requested, this psychomotor therapist in nursing home fell ill with Covid-19 and lost three days of salary: "here is my anger". Read our report here.
7:50 a.m. Sanofi acquires a messenger RNA specialist. Sanofi announces the purchase for 3.2 billion dollars (approximately 2.6 billion euros) of the American Translate Bio, a specialist in messenger RNA. The French pharmaceutical giant wants to accelerate its development in this technology. Sanofi is already working with Translate Bio to develop a messenger RNA vaccine against Covid-19. But the goal is to go further. "Our goal is to unlock the potential of messenger RNA in other strategic areas, such as immunology, oncology", i.e. the treatment of cancers, "and rare diseases, in addition vaccines,” summarizes Paul Hudson, CEO.
7:40 a.m. A system on the verge of “collapse”. Echoing these tensions in the hospital, Christophe Prudhomme, spokesperson for the Association of Emergency Physicians of France (Amuf), believes that "the hospital system is collapsing on the eve of 'a resurgence of the epidemic'. His interview can be read here.
7:20 a.m. The hospital system under pressure. Between staff holidays, increased admissions and compulsory vaccination in sight, there are many sources of tension in the hospital. Added to this is the health pass and the uncertainties that surround it. Le Parisien went on a report to two Parisian hospitals.
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7 hours. A first step in Guadeloupe. The Guadeloupe 1ere channel specifies that the prefecture, which has decided to reconfine the island from Wednesday, does not rule out tightening the measures announced if these do not prove to be sufficient. Restaurants could thus close at noon and the curfew be brought forward to 6 p.m.
6:45 a.m. Obama criticized. Even though he plans to celebrate his 60th birthday by adhering to all applicable health guidelines, former US President Barack Obama, born August 4, is drawing criticism amid a resurgence in COVID-19 cases. Delta variant. The party is to take place this weekend on the upscale island of Martha's Vineyard, following guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). All guests must be vaccinated and tested negative. The event must take place outdoors and a "Covid coordinator" will be present. Republican lawmaker Jim Jordan, a Donald Trump stalwart who left the presidency in January, quipped that Democrats, "if it was President Trump's birthday party," would call out a "dangerous super event." -propagator" and would conclude that the organizers of such a gathering are "killing people".
6:30 a.m. No health pass in Mexico. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Monday ruled out the use of a health pass to access public places. “We are not going to ask for this type of certificate, that is very clear, but we are going to make sure that there is no contamination,” said the president.
6:15 a.m. Wuhan will screen its residents due to new cases. The Chinese city of Wuhan, where Covid-19 first appeared in late 2019, will screen all of its residents again after a few cases were found. Three positive tests were confirmed Monday in the metropolis of 11 million inhabitants, caught in turn by an outbreak of the Delta strain that appeared last month in the east of the country. A total of seven workers from other provinces have tested positive for Covid-19, authorities said on Monday. Four of them, however, do not show any symptoms of the disease. Previous cases of Covid-19 in the city dated back to May 2020.
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