Social Security has done the accounts advances received by caregivers as part of the compensation scheme for loss of activity (Dipa) in 2020. Out of 200,000 liberal caregivers assisted, 114,000 will receive a “supplement”, while 87,000 must reimburse an overpayment. What arouse the incomprehension and the anger of the unions. The National Medicines Safety Agency on Friday authorized the use of Ronapreve, a treatment for Covid-19 with synthetic antibodies, to treat advanced forms of Covid-19.
The Covid-19 pandemic has killed at least 4.5 million people around the world since the end of December 2019, according to a report established this Friday morning by AFP from official sources. The United States is the most affected country in the world with 643,669 deaths, ahead of Brazil (581,914), India (439,895), Mexico (261,496) and Peru (198,364).
- 87,000 caregivers will have to reimburse an overpayment to the Social Security
Of the 200,000 liberal caregivers financially assisted by Social Security at the start of the Covid-19 epidemic, 87,000 will have to reimburse an overpayment, reimbursement which can be spread over 12 months, Health Insurance said on Friday. to AFP. Set up during the first epidemic wave, the compensation system for loss of activity (Dipa) was requested by 203,000 liberal health professionals. All received an advance of around 5,500 euros on average, to compensate for the drop in their income between March and June 2020, linked in particular to confinement.
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More than a year after this period, the Social Security has calculated the final amount due for each caregiver. A majority (114,000) will thus receive a “supplement” of an average amount of 3,300 euros, specifies Marguerite Cazeneuve, deputy director of the National Health Insurance Fund (Cnam). Conversely, 87,000 “have an overpayment to repay”, nearly 2,700 euros on average. A situation which has aroused for a few days the incomprehension, even the anger of the unions. Among doctors, the UFML denounced a “scam”, while MG France and the CSMF demanded “transparency”, the dentists of the CDF asking to “review the method of calculation”.
“We cannot erase the slate, because it is public money”, explains Ms. Cazeneuve, stressing that Social Security has disbursed a total of nearly 1.3 billion euros for this aid and that ” all those who asked for it received it “. However, the Cnam displays “a doctrine of great flexibility” for the regularization of overpayments. The caregivers concerned will thus be able to obtain a staggered payment over twelve months, upon simple request to their local health insurance fund.
- Early treatment of Covid-19 extended to certain patients already hospitalized
Ronapreve, a treatment for Covid-19 with synthetic antibodies, until then reserved for the prevention of the disease and the fight against its early forms, was also authorized this Friday in France at more advanced stages in patients already to the hospital. “As of September 3, 2021, given the identified medical need for the management of patients with an advanced stage of Covid-19 disease, we are expanding the use of the dual monoclonal antibody therapy casirivimab / imdevimab”, announced in a press release the National Medicines Safety Agency (ANSM).
This treatment, marketed under the name Ronapreve by the American laboratory Regeneron, was already authorized against early forms of the disease in people at high risk, and to prevent its appearance in immunocompromised. It can now be given at more advanced stages, in patients already hospitalized and at risk of developing a severe form. “This concerns immunocompromised patients, patients at risk of complications linked to comorbidities, patients aged 80 and over,” detailed the ANSM.
The treatment will be reserved for those who need so-called non-invasive oxygen therapy, which excludes in particular intubations, if they have not themselves developed antibodies against the disease. Synthetic antibody treatments are one of the main therapeutic avenues against Covid-19, but have so far been prescribed preventively or shortly after the onset of symptoms.
- Corsica: the health pass has been suspended in shopping malls
The prefecture of Corse-du-Sud announced on Friday the suspension of the health pass obligation in shopping centers of more than 20,000 m², without waiting for a court decision. Decrees imposing the health pass have already been suspended by the courts in several departments of France, in particular Yvelines and Essonne.
- In New Caledonia, vaccination becomes compulsory
Vaccination against Covid-19 will become compulsory in New Caledonia for all adults, except those with a medical contraindication, while only 30% of the population of the archipelago is to date fully vaccinated.
This obligation, adopted this Friday unanimously by Congress, will also apply to all travelers wishing to travel to the archipelago, a rare territory in the world still free from Covid-19. Unvaccinated people will be refused entry to the territory.
- Polynesia: confinement is extended
The containment and curfew measures in force since August 23 in French Polynesia will be extended by 15 days, until September 20, said High Commissioner Dominique Sorain. The containment measures in force since August 23 and the vaccination of the population “are starting to show their results”, but “if the number of cases begins to stabilize, it is at a level of extreme gravity”, a explained the High Commissioner, asking for better compliance with the restrictive measures.
“Too many people are still moving without legitimate reasons”, he declared, announcing an increase in controls, during a joint press conference with the President of Polynesia Edouard Fritch. By the end of the week, a total of 100 reservists are due to arrive, while 50 national solidarity caregivers disembarked Thursday. The territory is still awaiting five doctors from a medico-psychological unit as well as 40 firefighters and public security soldiers, who will in particular be deployed to vaccination centers.
- End of the dispute between the European Union and AstraZeneca
The European Union and AstraZeneca announced on Friday that they had reached an agreement on the supply of the Twenty-Seven with anti-Covid vaccines, ending the legal proceedings initiated in the spring against the pharmaceutical company accused of having delayed delivering the doses promised.
By the end of the first quarter of 2022, the Anglo-Swedish group is committed to delivering in several stages an additional total of around 200 million doses in order to supplement the approximately 100 million already received by the member states.
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- UK to send doses to Australia
The United Kingdom will send four million doses of vaccines to Australia, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Friday as his country struggles to stem a wave of Covid-19. These “four million doses of hope” will be sent from Saturday and then in the weeks to come, he said. More than half of the 25 million Australians are currently in lockdown, including residents of Sydney and Melbourne, and the number of cases and deaths continues to rise due to the spread of the Delta variant.
