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Health Minister Olivier Véran announced on Wednesday the establishment of weekend containment in the city of Dunkirk and the community of communes of Hauts de Flandre.
Prime Minister Jean Castex could announce new restrictions in the country during the day, during his press conference scheduled for 6 p.m.
The latest assessment in France is 278 deaths in 24 hours and 31,519 contaminations.
Over 2.6 million people have had one dose of the vaccine, just over 1.3 million two doses.
Globally, the pandemic has killed nearly 2.5 million people.
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6:52 a.m.
Moderna's vaccine against the South African variant ready for clinical trials.
A modified version of the Moderna vaccine, developed specifically against the South African variant, is ready to be tested in humans in clinical trials.
"Moderna has sent doses of its specific vaccine candidate against the variant [...] for a clinical study," the US biotech company said in a statement Wednesday.
6.30am.
D-day for vaccination in general practitioners.
From today, general practitioners can now perform injections in their practice, with AstraZeneca vaccine.
Only people aged 50 to 64 with co-morbidities such as diabetes or heart or lung conditions are currently concerned.
This same population can also now be vaccinated in their company, via occupational physicians.
This new step should make it possible to vaccinate nearly 2 million people during the month of March.
6:17 am.
Several departments on borrowed time from the resurgence of the epidemic.
After Nice, Dunkirk has been subject to partial re-containment since yesterday from this weekend.
Regionalized measures which are now the government's new strategy.
While Jean Castex gives a press conference at 6 p.m., other territories could be concerned.
Our update on the situation can be found here.
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