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DIRECT. Covid 19: the mayor of Boulogne-sur-Mer denounces the "considerable delay to catch up" for vaccination

2021-03-07T08:01:41.947Z


Reinforced tests and vaccinations continue in France while partial containment is in place in Pas-de-Calais, Dunkirk and u


> The essential

  • This Sunday is the second day of a weekend of reinforced tests and vaccination in France.

  • More than 220,000 people were vaccinated yesterday according to the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, twice as many as on Saturday of last week.

  • Nord-Pas-de-Calais is experiencing its first Sunday of partial containment, the coast of the Alpes-Maritimes and Dunkirk (North) their second.

  • The latest assessment in France is 23,306 contaminations in 24 hours and 173 deaths in hospital.

    3,689 people are in an intensive care unit.

  • Worldwide, the pandemic has killed nearly 2.6 million officially recorded deaths since its appearance.

> Live events of the day

8.45 a.m.

Vaccination, an “ethical duty”.

The orders of the health professions "call with a single voice on all caregivers to be vaccinated".

In the JDD, they describe this as an “ethical duty”.

More details in our article.

8:30 am.

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Pas-de-Calais has a considerable delay to catch up

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While the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, is expected during the day in Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais), the mayor (PS) Frédéric Cuvillier believes on France Info that "the inhabitants

(who are living their first weekend of confinement, Editor's note)

have the feeling of being mistreated, which is the case, deplores the elected official.

But people are responsible, they play by the rules ”.

The mayor wonders "why it is necessary to fight so much to obtain 1000 doses of Astrazeneca to open a vaccinodrome ... We have a considerable delay to catch up.

Today, we have to move up a gear ”.

Frédéric Cuvillier hopes that the Minister of Health “will not come empty-handed”.

8:15 am.

Demonstration in Guadeloupe.

Between 2,000 and 3,000 demonstrators, according to the organizers, marched on Saturday in the streets of Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, at the call of 11 unions, to protest in particular against the layoffs announced by companies because of the health crisis .

Masked or not, the demonstrators marched in the streets of Pontoise, sometimes to the sound of chachas (a Caribbean percussion), to express their anger.

“Hiring for all!”

was it written on one sign, or "sablyè en strike" on another, in reference to a strike by Guadeloupe sand-pit agents which has lasted for nearly four months.

8

hours.

A local case in Wallis and Futuna.

A first case outside the fortnight of Covid-19 has been detected in the small archipelago of Wallis and Futuna in the South Pacific, where measures to protect the population, with high rates of obesity and diabetes, have been taken.

“This is a person who was out of fortnight several weeks ago after a negative test.

This person has seen a doctor because of symptoms and has tested positive, which means that the virus is circulating on the island, ”said Hervé Jonathan, senior administrator of Wallis and Futuna.

So far, only 9 cases of Covid-19 have been detected in Wallis and Futuna, all during or after the fortnight in a hotel, mandatory for all people arriving in the archipelago.

7.45 a.m.

Encouraging trials for a drug.

Pharmaceutical giant Merck and a US laboratory on Saturday announced progress in the design of an orally administered drug.

Their antiviral being tested had positive effects in reducing the viral load.

“We are encouraged by these preliminary results,” said Wendy Painter, chief drug officer for Ridgeback Biotherapeutics.

7:30 am.

A test marriage to revive the activity.

Professionals in the wedding industry are considering the organization of a test wedding of a hundred people.

They developed a protocol which they sent to the authorities concerned (ministries and elected officials).

The goal of this test carried out with a hundred people would be to relaunch the activity after the 40,000 cancellations last year.

More details in our article.

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7:15 am.

Events in several countries.

In Stockholm (Sweden), two people were arrested on Saturday on the sidelines of a demonstration organized in protest against the restrictions.

Six policemen were injured.

In Vienna (Austria), several thousand demonstrators marched in the center.

Isolated clashes were reported between protesters and leftist counter-protesters.

Police made a few arrests.

In Antananarivo (Madagascar), several hundred demonstrators marched in the streets to denounce the government's misuse of funds intended to fight the pandemic and the rise in the prices of basic foodstuffs.

The President of Paraguay, Mario Abdo Benitez, announced a reshuffle of his government after violent protests demanding his resignation because of his management deemed deficient in the pandemic.

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hours.

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Source: leparis

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