11:32 am: Disposable masks: 450 years to self-destruct, is recycling possible?
Having become an essential object of our daily life, the mask, often surgical, is thrown, at best in a trash can, at worst in the street. Too complicated to recycle for some, elected officials nevertheless want to create a recycling channel, while NGOs are campaigning for reusable masks. Read our full article here.
11:10 am: Nancy starts to vaccinate outside nursing home, a first in France
Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle) is the first city in France to vaccinate patients over 75 years old outside nursing homes, almost a week before the start of the national campaign, according to the town hall, which however encourages interested patients to wait until Wednesday.
A flaw in the Doctolib appointment system allowed a few patients to take one from this Tuesday to be vaccinated, while vaccination is normally reserved for nursing staff.
10:54 am: The European Union and the EMA “under pressure”
The European Union and the EMA are “under pressure” to speed up approval of new vaccines against the virus, which has already claimed more than 620,000 lives across the continent.
The EMA already authorized on December 21 the vaccine against the Covid-19 Pfizer-BioNTech and on January 6 that of Moderna, for which the European Commission immediately gave the green light. The request for the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine was filed on Tuesday.
10:21 a.m .: Rugby: 15 new cases of Covid-19 in La Rochelle
La Rochelle has recorded 15 new cases of Covid-19 and must keep its training center closed, announced on Tuesday the Top 14 club, whose match at Racing 92 last weekend had been postponed due to the coronavirus.
This announcement comes the day after that of the suspension “at least until early February” of the European Rugby Cups, due to the very rapid expansion of the coronavirus variant in the United Kingdom.
9:34 am: Australian and Chinese GP postponed, Imola enters the calendar
The Formula 1 Australian and Chinese GPs, scheduled for March 21 and April 11 in Melbourne and Shanghai, are postponed to November 21 and to an undetermined date, and the Italian Imola circuit enters the 2021 calendar.
In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, the season, which still includes 23 Grands Prix on paper, will therefore not start in Australia but in Bahrain on March 28, before moving to Imola on April 18 and then to a place yet to be determined on May 2. It will end a week later than expected in Abu Dhabi, on December 12 instead of 5.
9.15 a.m .: AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine: authorization request submitted
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Tuesday received an urgent marketing request for the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine. She indicates that she “could make her decision on January 29”.
This vaccine is the second to have received authorization from the British health authorities, after the vaccine from Pfizer, used since early December. More than 2.5 billion doses have already been ordered worldwide.
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8:20 am: France’s vaccine strategy: Olivier Véran heard this Tuesday in the Senate
The Senate Social Affairs Committee hears, on the implementation of the vaccine strategy against the virus, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran this Tuesday, January 12 in the afternoon, and the epidemiologist Antoine Flahault, director of the Institute of Global Health at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva, Wednesday, January 13 in the morning.
8:16 am: 138,351 French people vaccinated since December 27
138,351 people received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine between December 27 and January 11, according to data released by the Ministry of Health on Monday evening. This is significantly less than Germany (532,878 doses administered) or the United Kingdom (1.3 million people have already received a first dose).
7:57 am: The British variant spotted in the Cholet region
Several cases of the British variant have been spotted in the region of Cholet (Maine-et-Loire) after the holiday visit of a family residing in England, announced Monday evening the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of the Netherlands. Of the loire.
7:43 am: No collective immunity in 2021
Massive vaccination campaigns, in the face of the galloping progression of Covid-19, will not be enough to guarantee collective immunity in 2021, the WHO warned on Monday, a team of which is expected this week in China, a year after the announcement the first of nearly 2 million deaths from the pandemic.
Case statistics, which now exceed the 90 million recorded, are panicking around the world, due to more contagious mutations of the virus.
7:05 am: A third confinement? “The curfew is enough”
An extension of the curfew at 6 p.m. to the entire national territory is currently being considered by the government. But no question for the time of a third confinement: “The figures suggest that the curfew is sufficient,” Jean Castex told parliamentarians on Monday.
6:39 am: Advanced curfew: the threat hangs over the Loire, the Rhône, the Haute-Loire and the Ain
Two weeks after the New Year, the latest data reveals a worrying viral circulation of Covid-19 in five departments, reveals Progress. If they are confirmed in the coming days, the incidence rates could even lead the Loire, the Rhône, the Haute-Loire and the Ain to join the Jura, under curfew advanced for ten days.
6:33 a.m .: A young woman walks her friend on a leash under curfew
To “test” the vigilance of the police after the entry into force of a strict curfew on Saturday in Quebec, a young woman has decided to … walk her friend on a leash. Result: she was fined 1,000 euros, and 1,000 euros for him. Read our full article here.
6:26 am: 500 restaurants open in Mexico: “The only option they left us is death”
More than 500 restaurants reopened in Mexico City on Monday, disobeying authorities in the Mexican capital who had ordered the suspension of their activities, in the face of the increase in hospitalizations for Covid-19.
“We are opening, not as an act of rebellion, but for them to see that we have reached a borderline situation (…)” said Giulliano Lopresti, owner of the restaurant Quebracho in the central district of Cuauhtemoc which opened its doors with 48 seats, instead of the 200 it can count. “We are so desperate that we open up, otherwise the only option they have left us is death.”
On December 18, the authorities of the capital – a city of nine million inhabitants – declared a state of maximum health alert and decided to suspend non-essential activities. On January 8, these measures had been extended.
6:18 am: Two departments switch … while waiting for a general curfew at 6 pm?
A curfew at 6 p.m. generalized throughout France? This is one of the avenues considered by the government, which is due to debate on Wednesday in the Defense Council. A government communication will follow on Thursday.
For the moment, 23 departments are under advanced curfew (Hautes-Alpes, Alpes-Maritimes, Ardennes, Doubs, Jura, Marne, Haute-Marne, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Haute-Saône, Vosges, Territoire- de-Belfort, Moselle, Nièvre, Saône-et-Loire, Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin, Vaucluse, Cher, Bouches-du-Rhône, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Allier and Côte-d’Or) and two join them this Tuesday: the Var and the Drôme.
6:14 am: Towards new confinement in Portugal, the president tested positive
Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has tested positive for the new coronavirus and has canceled his entire public agenda, two weeks before the presidential election on January 24, for which he is widely favored.
The epidemic hit new records on Monday in Portugal with 122 dead in 24 hours, nearly 4,000 people hospitalized, and the country is preparing for new strict containment.
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What to know this Tuesday morning
– 25 departments are now under curfew at 6 p.m. These are the Hautes-Alpes, Alpes-Maritimes, Ardennes, Doubs, Jura, Marne, Haute-Marne, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Haute-Saône, Vosges, Territoire-de-Belfort, Moselle, Nièvre, Saône -et-Loire, Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin, Vaucluse, Cher, Bouches-du-Rhône, Var and Drôme.
– In hospitals, the burden remains high, with 24,812 patients with Covid hospitalized on Monday, including 2,666 in intensive care, a level that has not fallen significantly for nearly a month. In total in France, the epidemic has killed 68,034 (+ 310 in the last 24 hours).
– Another concern: the variant “VOC 202012/01”, which caused an outbreak in the UK. How far did he settle in France? A national investigation has been launched, under the aegis of Public Health France, to make a “first map” of this variant. “In the middle of the week, we’ll know how big the enemy is“.
– A new health defense council will be held on Wednesday, on the eve of a new government press conference on Thursday. “At this stage, there is no planned reconfinement”, assured Monday Jean Castex, but the government is preparing all the same for “all the assumptions”.
– After strong criticism of the slow start of the campaign, more than 138,000 people in France have been vaccinated on January 11, among residents of nursing homes and health professionals, said the Minister of Health Monday evening. In the million doses already received from Pfizer / BioNtech vaccine, more than 50,000 doses of vaccine Moderna, which has just been authorized in Europe, should also be delivered on Monday to be transported to the Grand Est, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Paca in order to be used during the week.
– Massive vaccination campaigns will not be enough to guarantee herd immunity in 2021, warned on Monday the WHO, a team of which is expected this week in China, a year after the announcement of the first of nearly 2 million deaths from the pandemic.
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