Olivier Véran, Minister of Health, questioned on France inter this Tuesday morning: “A curfew effect tends to be felt. In the 15 departments under curfew, at 6 p.m., since January 2, the incidence, the number of new diagnoses were instead down -16% year on year. “
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“The level of the epidemic is high but relatively stable. We are not in an exponential part of the curve”, underlined Olivier Véran. But to recall that: “The circulation of the virus remains worrying in the country.”
200 to 300 new cases of English variant per day in France
“There are 200 and 300 new cases of the English variant in our country” detected per day in positive PCR tests. “For example, 36 people from a nursing home in Ile-de-France are all positive for the new English variant,” he said. “When a virus is more aggressive and more contagious, it can become quite dominant quickly.”
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In France, the variant detected in the United Kingdom represents 1.4% of the cases of Covid-19 diagnosed in the country.
Two million meetings
“Two million vaccination appointments have been given,” Olivier Véran told France Inter. In the absence of a slot available in a vaccination center, “I asked that before the end of the week, we register your contact details and that we remind you when slots are available,” added the Minister of Health.
The precise number of doses each vaccination center has will soon be known
He also informed that the government would publish “on the santé.fr site, in complete transparency, before the weekend, the precise number of doses that each vaccination center has each week.”
“The elected officials know in advance how many doses they can use. Some have opened plenty of appointment slots” to have more dose: “that is not possible,” lamented the Minister of Health.
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