DIRECT. Covid-19: Véran does not rule out re-containment

The essential :

• Vaccination begins this Sunday in France.

  A few dozen elderly people will receive a first dose of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine in Sevran and Dijon.

• 24,444 patients are hospitalized, including 2,640 in intensive care.

  3,093 new cases were identified between Friday and Saturday, but this figure is biased by the fact that Friday was a public holiday.

• Olivier Véran does not rule out a third confinement in case the health situation worsens.

Live information this Sunday:

7:25 am.

Véran does not rule out a third confinement in case of aggravation.

Questioned by the JDD, the Minister of Health affirms "never to exclude measures which could be necessary to protect populations".

"It does not mean that we have decided, but that we observe the situation hour by hour," he adds, while elected officials in the Grand Est and doctors pleaded to reconfine all or part of the country after Christmas.

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7:05 am.

D-day for the vaccination!

It is this Sunday that the first injections take place in France and in the majority of European countries.

Less than forty elderly people will be vaccinated in the long-term care unit of the René-Muret hospital in Sevran (Seine-Saint-Denis) and in a geriatric center dependent on the Dijon University Hospital (Côte d'Or ).

7 hours.

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