10:25 am: New defense council this Monday
A health defense council will be held this Monday afternoon at the Elysee, according to franceinfo. The last defense council on the evolution of the coronavirus pandemic took place on December 29.
9:39 am: Vaccination: Jean Rottner denounces “a state scandal”
“We are pursuing a policy which has proved its failure in the past: masks, tests, vaccination today, denounced this Monday morning the president (LR) of the Grand Est region Jean Rottner, guest from France 2. It destroys me because I come from a particularly affected region, because I am proud of my country, and usually I am the first to defend it. But there, what a form of unpreparedness. is a state scandal. “
And adds: “It is the virus which makes the vaccine strategy, it is not the opinion polls. And these polls do not make medicine today.”
The French need clarity, the French need a sure message, a government that knows where it is going.
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9:19 am: Briton receives first injection of AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine
The United Kingdom on Monday became the first country to administer to its population the vaccine developed by the British laboratory AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, thus accelerating its vaccination campaign launched in early December, in the face of the worsening of the pandemic of coronavirus.
Brian Pinker, an 82-year-old Briton on dialysis, received the first injection of the “national” vaccine at Churchill Hospital at Oxford University, 520,000 doses of which are ready for distribution, the public service said. British Health (NHS) in a statement.
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9am: “Keep a close eye on the British variant”
“This British variant of the Covid will have to be monitored extremely closely, it is really the concern of the moment, affirms Professor Arnaud Fontanet on franceinfo. It can really precipitate us into an extremely complex situation.”
It is necessary “a surveillance which makes it possible to detect its presence on the territory, to go on these cases and to organize an extremely aggressive surveillance”, estimates it.
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8:53 am: “The real deadline” for vaccination, “it’s late March”
On franceinfo, the epidemiologist Arnaud Fontanet believes that “we should not rely on the vaccine at present” and not forget the epidemiological situation itself, including the discovery of new variants of the virus.
I agree that things are going too slowly and that it is important to reach better and faster figures, but the real deadline is at the end of March, when we will have between five to ten million people vaccinated (. ..). Before, it will have very little impact.
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“We can estimate that 12% of French people have contracted Covid-19. This virus will stop circulating in an epidemic way when at least half of people have been immunized, he added. The population must understand that we will not get out of this hell until we achieve this collective immunity. It will be through the vaccine. “
08h45: “A little bit of sensitivity to the shoulder”: the first vaccinated caregiver tells
“Those who have not yet had the experience, maybe they will feel a little bit of tenderness in the shoulder, maybe they will feel like they are, not feverish but a little hot on the evening, and then tired. It was my case and it surprised me, but without problem “, told Jean-Jacques Monsuez, first vaccinated caregiver, on franceinfo.
This cardiologist from the René-Muret hospital in Sevran (Seine-Saint-Denis) specifies that he was vaccinated by “discipline”, in particular to protect his colleagues. He received an injection on December 27, the day the vaccination campaign was launched in France.
8:07 am: “Better a virus 50% more deadly than 50% more transmissible”, for Guillaume Rozier
“A lot of elements are in the direction of a more transmissible variant. However, it is worse to have a virus that is transmitted faster than a more deadly virus. It is better to have a virus 50% more deadly, than a virus that is 50% more transmissible. It may seem counterintuitive, but in the medium term a more transmissible virus will cause more deaths than a more deadly virus. “
Find the interview with Guillaume Rozier, founder of Covid Tracker and computer engineer specializing in the processing of massive amounts of data.
7:35 am: An 18-day-old baby affected by the coronavirus in the Loire
“We lived a week in a tunnel of horror”, the parents of the little boy testify to Progress. They are the first to contract the virus and develop symptoms: high fever, cough, fatigue. “Our son was born on December 10, we were concerned, with this 18-day-old baby at home. The doctors told us there was no risk. We decided to carry when. even the mask. But it was too late, our baby was infected “, explain these parents from the region of Roanne, in the Loire.
The baby is urgently hospitalized on December 28. He will stay three days in the hospital. “The doctors did not think they were dealing with Covid because there had never been a case of a positive baby in Roanne”, supports the father of the child. Who adds: “We were lucky, the virus caused a fever but respiratory consequences. We lived a week in a tunnel of horror.”
7:30 am: Vaccination: in turn, this Monday, caregivers aged 50 and over
The vaccination campaign, which started slowly in France, is accelerating on Monday with the possibility for caregivers aged 50 and over who wish to be vaccinated. Initially, they should have waited until late January or early February.
7:25 am: Teleworking and vaccination for French border workers in Luxembourg
Luxembourg has planned measures for French border workers. The Grand Duchy has thus included “active frontier workers” in its vaccination campaign, according to The Lorraine Republican. Another measure that directly affects French workers in Luxembourg: the “reinforced” use of teleworking, requested by the Luxembourg Prime Minister at the start of the year. It is recommended for “all those whose activity is compatible” with remote work, with contributions and coverage in Luxembourg guaranteed until at least the end of June.
7:10 am: A reopening of restaurants on January 20 unlikely
At the end of November, the head of state had set a deadline for the reopening of restaurants: January 20. While the epidemic in France is in a plateau, and the consequences of the end of year celebrations are not yet felt, this deadline would already be postponed, according to RTL.
“It will not be January 20,” said several government sources on the radio, specifying that the official announcement of the measure should be made by Prime Minister Jean Castex in the coming days.
6:30 am: “The new variant is much more contagious”, according to Nathan Peiffer-Smadja
Nathan Peiffer-Smadja, infectious disease specialist at Bichat hospital, talks about the impact of the new variant of the virus.
6:25 am: More than 1.83 million dead
The pandemic has killed at least 1,835,824 people worldwide for more than 84.5 million people infected, according to a report established Sunday according to official figures.
The United States is the most affected country in terms of both deaths and cases, with 351,452 deaths for more than 20.6 million cases. Brazil (196,018 dead) and India (149,435 dead) follow.
These figures do not take into account ex post revisions made by statistical agencies, such as in Russia, Spain and the United Kingdom.
6:20 a.m .: UK starts injecting AstraZeneca and Oxford vaccine on Monday
The United Kingdom becomes the first country on Monday to administer the vaccine from the British laboratory AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford against Covid-19 to its population, while considering a new severe turn of the screw to curb the worsening of the pandemic.
AstraZeneca-Oxford’s vaccine is less expensive, easier to store and therefore more suitable for a large-scale immunization campaign than those of its competitors Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, already approved and distributed in several countries, including states. -United.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has already been injected to more than one million people in the United Kingdom since the launch of the vaccination campaign in early December.
British authorities have ordered 100 million doses of AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine, 520,000 of which are ready on Monday, according to the Department of Health. In England, hundreds of new vaccination centers are due to open this week, in addition to the 730 already in place.
6:17:35 French people drawn from Monday to vote on the vaccine strategy
Some 35 French people will be drawn on Monday to form a “collective of citizens”, responsible for commenting on the vaccine strategy in France while it is the subject of criticism because of its slowness.
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6:15 am: The children will go to school this Monday “as planned”
French children and adolescents will go to school on Monday “as planned”, Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer said on Sunday, promising a return “according to the reinforced health protocol”.
“We will deploy the tests even more strongly,” added the minister, while concerns point to an outbreak of the epidemic with the return of children to school and the detection in France of two variants of the Covid identified in the United Kingdom. United and South Africa.
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6:12 am: French government under pressure for the vaccine campaign, fear of a rebound of the virus, tougher restrictions envisaged in the United Kingdom … Follow the developments of the pandemic in France and around the world on Monday, January 4.
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