The essential ⤵️
31,086 patients with Covid-19 are hospitalized in France, including 5,984 in critical care (resuscitation, intensive care, continuous monitoring).
43,098 new cases were identified between Monday and Tuesday.
Emmanuel Macron admits "difficulties to convince on the AstraZeneca", whose number of daily vaccinations is declining.
A new Health Defense Council is being held this Wednesday morning.
D-3 before the entry into force of the mandatory ten-day quarantine for passengers from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, South Africa and Guyana.
The European Medicines Agency has given the green light for the use of the Janssen vaccine, although it considers that the unusual side effects should be listed among the side effects.
Today's events ⤵️
8:50 am. "The Indian variant will arrive in France, it's a matter of days", according to infectious disease specialist Karine Lacombe.
"It is obvious that this variant will arrive, it is a matter of days and it is probably already in France", explains Karine Lacombe, infectious disease specialist on France Info. PCR tests make it possible to detect this variant. The objective is to break the chain of transmission to prevent it from developing in the territory. “In particular, he has two mutations, which appeared on the Spike protein. It can be resistant to vaccination or treatment, ”adds Karine Lacombe.
Coronavirus "double mutant" in India: "It has in particular two mutations, appeared on the Spike protein. It can be resistant to vaccination or to treatments", explains Karine Lacombe, infectious disease
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8:20 am. In Guyana, vaccination is slipping despite the opening to 30 years.
In Guyana, the health authorities deplore the weak support of the population for vaccination against Covid-19, while the incidence of the Brazilian variant is increasing sharply. The Ministry of Health noted "a significant gap" in vaccination coverage "compared to the population of the metropolitan territory", evoking "a question of membership". This is the reason why the ministry has "very broadly adapted the vaccine targets to create a ripple effect". Vaccination was extended last week to people over 30, 7,268 Guyanese have received two doses of Pfizer vaccine (the only one administered in Guyana) according to the latest official count.
8:15 am.
The Terra Nova think tank launches avenues against dropping out of young people from the “Covid generation”.
A massive deployment of learning by relying on digital technology for flexible distance learning: the Terra Nova think tank has just launched avenues in a report to fight against dropping out of young people hit by the Covid crisis.
"The paradox of the pandemic is that young people will have been both physiologically the most protected against the virus and socially the most exposed to the economic devastation it has engendered", it is written in this report entitled "Acting for success young people in difficulty ”.
According to this study, "the pandemic has come to reinforce already sensitive difficulties: 13.5% of young people aged 15 to 29 are neither in studies, nor in employment, nor in training".
8 hours. The Lalique group in the red.
The luxury group Lalique suffered a loss in 2020 of 15 million euros after a net profit of 1.1 million in 2019. Turnover for its part contracted 23% to 110.7 million in due to the closure of its shops for its crystal products. The group has renounced paying dividends to shareholders.
7:50 a.m. In the absence of an agreement with the EU on its vaccine, Valneva turns to country-by-country discussions.
In the absence of an agreement with the European Union, the Franco-Austrian laboratory Valneva, which is developing the inactivated vaccine candidate against COVID-19 in Europe, has indicated that it is turning to country-by-country discussions. Believing that discussions with the EU have not made "significant progress" to date, Valneva, which announced in early April positive initial results for the first phase of its clinical study on its potential vaccine, indicates that accordingly , it will no longer give "priority to centralized supply discussions currently underway with the European Commission".
7:35. For 79% of French people, teachers should be vaccinated as a priority.
This is what emerges from an OpinionWay survey carried out for the SNES-FSU union on April 14 and 15 via an online questionnaire on a representative sample of 1,001 people. Regarding health measures for the start of the school year, 83% of those questioned want "a strict protocol for the definition of contact cases" and the closure of the class to break the transmissions from the first contamination.
7:30 am.
Veterinarians in Chile prosecuted for administering canine coronavirus vaccines.
An investigation has been opened by the courts against two Chilean veterinarians who allegedly administered vaccines against the canine coronavirus to at least 75 people in the months leading up to the arrival of the vaccines developed for humans, officials said on Tuesday. health.
The two vets reportedly administered the vaccines developed against the canine coronavirus, which is not the same as the Covid-19 virus responsible for the global pandemic, to residents of the city of Calama, in northern Chile.
7:15 am.
Prices are soaring in Argentina.
In Argentina, inflation in the first quarter has already reached 13%, driven up by food prices. With inflation of 42.6% in the last twelve months, Argentina is experiencing one of the highest price increases in the world. It reached 54% in 2019, 36% in 2020. In Latin America, only Venezuela is doing worse. To contain inflation, the government of center-left President Alberto Fernandez has capped the prices of some staple foods and provided food aid coupons to the poorest. In recession for three years, and after having managed to renegotiate $ 66 billion in debt with bondholders in 2020, Argentina has yet to find an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on a new credit program.
7:10. The mental health of employees continues to deteriorate.
In March, nearly half of employees said they were in psychological distress, according to an Opinionway survey. In three months, the rate of depression requiring treatment has even jumped by 15 points: 36% of employees are concerned when they were only 21% in December, according to a survey carried out last March by Opinionway for Empreinte human rights on the
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impact of the health crisis on the psychological health of employees”
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In question: the working hours and teleworking and a particularly weakened morale at work ... In total, 45% of employees consider themselves in a situation of psychological distress, adds the study carried out among 2,004 employees.
But despite a gloomy professional life, seven out of ten employees still say that they still manage to experience positive emotions outside of work.
6:55 am.
How many local spectators at the Olympics?
Organizers
could postpone until June their decision on the number of fans residing in Japan who would be allowed at the competition venues, Japanese media reported on Wednesday, against a backdrop of a worsening pandemic within 100 days of the event.
6:35 am.
Sad record in India.
More than 2,000 deaths were recorded in 24 hours, which had never happened before.
The country is facing a very strong epidemic wave, driven in particular by a variant that is beginning to worry the rest of the world.
6:25 a.m.
New Defense Council this Wednesday morning
, around Emmanuel Macron.
Back to school, isolation for some passengers… The topics on the table will be, as always, very numerous.
More information in our article.
6:15 am.
Denmark “lends” Germany 55,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
“Following a request from the Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein, the government has decided to make 55,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine available to border regions,” the Danish Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The Nordic country has already withdrawn this product from its vaccination program, due to fears about side effects.
Read also AstraZeneca vaccine: ways to restore confidence
6:10 am.
Crucial vote in Germany.
German deputies vote this Wednesday on a law that strengthens the powers of Angela Merkel to toughen the fight against the "third wave" of the pandemic, including by imposing very controversial night curfews in the country.
The Bundestag is expected to adopt this reform of the infection protection law, championed by the coalition between the conservatives and the social democrats, who have a majority in the lower house of parliament.
To enter into force, it will still have to pass the Bundesrat, probably on Thursday.
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