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Covid-19: 21,217 new cases and more than 70,000 vaccinations in 24 hours

2021-01-15T19:50:00.714Z


The government wanted to reach 400,000 vaccinations for the weekend, despite the delays in delivery of doses announced by Pfizer.


21,217 positive cases for Covid-19 were recorded on Friday, January 15, according to official figures announced by Public Health France.

About 20,000 new cases have been recorded every day since the start of the year, far from the 5,000 expected by the government in mid-December.

Live: LIVE - Covid-19: mortality up 9% in 2020, according to INSEE

While INSEE announces an increase in the death rate of 9% in France over the year 2020, France recorded 288 deaths in 24 hours in hospital on Thursday.

Since the start of the epidemic, 69,601 people have been victims of Covid-19.

1,634 new hospitalizations have been recorded since the day before for a total of 25,009.

In the intensive care units, 2,730 patients occupy beds.

More than 1921 clusters are under investigation, including 725 in Ephad.

According to Public Health France, 2,872,941 people have been affected by the epidemic since the start of the epidemic.

For the fourth consecutive day, the test rate stabilized at 6.5%.

The government has announced that it wants to reach 400,000 vaccinations by the end of the week, a figure that the country tends to reach with 388,730 vaccinations to date - or 70,514 in 24 hours according to Vaccine Tracker.

This morning, 833 vaccination centers opened their doors.

Jean Castex, traveling to Troyes, declared on behalf of the government not to be "

in a race for numbers

".

For the time being, "

it is important that the vaccination of over 75s goes well

."

The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, detailed the schedule of vaccinations.

He is counting on the arrival of the AstraZeneca vaccine to vaccinate "

2.4 million French people by the end of February".

Tomorrow, the curfew is brought forward to 6 pm everywhere in France for a period of "at least 15 days", one of the new restrictions announced Thursday by Jean Castex.

If the curfew is not enough, "there will be confinement" warned Bruno Le Maire on

RMC

.

Source: lefigaro

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