9:18
Last day of tolerance to travel outside your region in France
On Wednesday evening, during his televised address, Emmanuel Macron announced the ban, from Tuesday, inter-regional trips, a new series of braking measures being implemented in France.
A tolerance was however granted for the Easter weekend and for this bank holiday Monday. People who wish to leave their region to isolate themselves in a second home or with their family can do so.
“We will not punish people who want to return home and return to their homes,” confirmed government spokesman Gabriel Attal on Sunday evening on LCI.
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8:04
England: two free self-tests per week for each person
The English government announced on Sunday that from Friday, two free self-tests will be available each week for English people who wish to be tested for Covid-19.
Everyone will be “encouraged” to do regular tests “to avoid an explosion of the epidemic and find a normal life”, specifies the government on his website.
Boris Johnson should clarify the contours of this announcement this Monday afternoon at a press conference.
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7:42
Thierry Breton assures us that “France is about to switch to a massive production of vaccines”
Thierry Breton, the European Commissioner in charge of the Vaccines task force in Brussels, visited the site of Moderna’s German subcontractor, CordenPharma, on Sunday, located in Chenôve (Côte-d’Or).
He asserted at Parisian that “France is about to switch to a massive production of vaccines”.
“CordenPharma, in Chenôve, near Dijon, has already been involved for several months in the manufacture of messenger RNA vaccines, in particular for Moderna, by supplying nanolipids, one of the essential components of this technology,” he said.
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7:24
AstraZeneca: 1,180 vaccine doses shunned this weekend in Hauts-de-France
In Hauts-de-France, three vaccination centers were forced to close their doors earlier than expected this weekend, due to the lack of volunteers wanting to be injected with the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Thus, the vaccination center installed at the Forum Gambetta in Calais (Pas-de-Calais) closed its doors on Saturday afternoon, after injecting only 200 doses, out of 750 available.
Cascading cancellations which also concerned Gravelines and Boulogne-sur-Mer. In total in the region, 1180 doses were not injected.
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6:37
Gabriel Attal says government “is starting to see signs that can make optimistic” in the first departments confined
Government spokesman Gabriel Attal told LCI on Sunday that the government “is starting to see signals that can give optimism about the measures that had been put in place” in 16 and then 19 departments, “with the start of stabilization of the ‘epidemic”.
“All this encourages us to continue, to maintain our efforts,” he stressed.
He indicated that there was “no quantified criterion which has been announced at this stage to lift the measures” but that the government would, in the coming weeks, look at “the dynamics of the epidemic”. “We have to get out of this exponential. We have a circulation of the virus which is going to crescendo”.
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6:31
Anti-Covid restrictions planned for four weeks “at this stage”, according to Gabriel Attal
Government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Sunday that the new anti-Covid 19 restrictions were planned “at this stage” to last four weeks, and that the President of the Republic could speak again in front of the French “of here the end of the month “.
“These measures have been announced for four weeks. It is not expected that they will go beyond 4 weeks at this stage,” said the government representative on LCI, although “nothing should ever be excluded by principle for the future “.
“There is a calendar announced by the President of the Republic. If this calendar has been announced, it is because we know, we believe, that everyone’s efforts will make it possible to keep it,” he said. added.
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6:26
The number of patients in intensive care continues to increase
The number of patients in intensive care continued to increase on Sunday, according to daily figures from Public Health France.
5,341 people with Covid-19 are treated in hospital intensive care units, which treat the most serious forms of the disease, against 5,273 on Saturday and 4,872 a week ago. There were 270 new admissions in 24 hours, the health agency said.
This indicator is closely monitored by the health authorities, who fear hospital congestion, in the middle of the third wave of the novel coronavirus epidemic.
The peak of the second wave, which amounted to 4,903 patients in critical care in mid-November, was exceeded on Monday. However, it is still far from that of the first wave (a little over 7000).
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