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24,292 new cases were identified in 24 hours in France.
As of January 29, nearly 1.5 million people have received at least one dose of the vaccine, of which nearly 40,000 have received both injections.
Several measures, including very strong border restrictions to come or leave France as well as the closure of the largest shopping centers, come into force on Sunday.
Olivier Véran assumes not to have imposed new confinement this weekend.
"Maybe we can avoid" a new wave, he also believes.
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WHO investigators visit Wuhan market.
It was one of the most anticipated stages of their mission.
WHO experts who arrived in China a few weeks ago are visiting the Wuhan market this Sunday, the source of the pandemic.
The first patients of Covid-19, at the end of 2019, often had a link with this market which sells many species of poisons and wild animals.
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Vaccine delays: the threat from Germany.
The German government is threatening legal action against laboratories "failing to meet their obligations" to deliver vaccines to the EU, as tensions mount over delays by Britain's AstraZeneca.
"If it turns out that companies have not respected their obligations, we will have to decide on legal consequences", indicates the Minister of the Economy Peter Altmaier, in an interview with the German daily Die Welt.
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Is a new wave inevitable?
“Maybe we can avoid it,” replies Olivier Véran in Le JDD this Sunday.
The Minister of Health notes "a slight deceleration" of contaminations in recent days, thus justifying that Jean Castex did not announce new confinement on Friday evening.
However, if the risk that the situation worsens is "not certain", it is "possible, even probable", he says.
This is, in particular, because of the spread of variants of SARS-CoV-2.
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