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DIRECT. Covid-19: "Delta variant contaminations double every week", alerts Gabriel Attal

2021-07-08T09:00:18.127Z


The government intends to take new measures next week to prevent a "rapid fourth wave" of Covid-19 due to v


The essential

  • In France, 28 deaths from the new coronavirus have been recorded in the past 24 hours.

    A total of 111,288 people have lost their lives since the start of the epidemic.

  • If hospital pressure is improving in France, with less than 1,000 people in critical care, the number of cases recorded every day has been steadily increasing for a week.

  • Olivier Véran received representatives of caregivers as part of the consultation on compulsory vaccination.

  • Prime Minister Jean Castex is continuing his consultations with elected officials on Thursday with a view to preparing a bill on compulsory vaccination for caregivers.

  • Catalonia decides to impose new restrictions, including the closure of nightclubs, from the end of the week.

Follow the events of the day live:

8:43 am.

"Strong measures are necessary in the face of a worrying health situation," said Bruno Le Maire.

8:42 am.

"The reopening of nightclubs is not called into question"

, specifies the

Minister of the Economy, Finance and Recovery.

8:40 am.

“The reimbursement of PCR tests represents a cost of 5 billion per year,” explains Bruno Le Maire.

8:38.

"I am not in favor of compulsory general vaccination, I appeal to everyone's conviction and sense of citizenship," said Bruno Le Maire.

Bruno Le Maire (@BrunoLeMaire) is "not in favor of compulsory general vaccination" pic.twitter.com/hO8ZffKpwA

- BFMTV (@BFMTV) July 8, 2021

8:35 am.

"I appeal for general mobilization to vaccinate us all and avoid this 4th wave"

, declares

Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy, Finance and Recovery, on BFMTV.

8:23.

"If the discotheques which will reopen tomorrow do not respect the rules, the sanitary protocol, there will be administrative closures", underlines the spokesperson of the government.

8:22 a.m.

"We must increase vaccination in our country, among caregivers and nursing homes, where it remains insufficient", declares Gabriel AttaL

8:21 am.

Compulsory vaccination: "We will make a decision in the coming days", specifies Gabriel Attal.

"How do we manage to convince?

Today the strategy is to simplify, convince, encourage.

It is true that we are working on the tests covered by social security, while we have a free vaccine.

Around the start of the school year, the question will be asked seriously ”.

Compulsory vaccination: "We will have to make a decision in the coming days," announces Gabriel Attal, government spokesperson, in #LaMatinale pic.twitter.com/M0hovYXnM1

- CNEWS (@CNEWS) July 8, 2021

8:18 am.

“The situation is worrying in France.

Contamination with the Delta variant, in positive cases

,

doubles every week, ”warns Gabriel Attal.

"There is a worrying situation in France (...) Contamination with the Delta variant is doubling every week," warns Gabriel Attal, government spokesman, in #LaMatinale pic.twitter.com/1Tk7yqcBpv

- CNEWS (@CNEWS) July 8, 2021

8:16 am.

"Yes there is a risk of a 4th wave at the end of July," said Gabriel Attal, the government spokesperson on CNews.

8:14.

Cuba sends medical reinforcements to a badly affected tourist region.

Cuban authorities urgently sent doctors and medical equipment to the tourist region of Matanzas, where hospitals are overwhelmed by a significant rise in Covid-19 cases.

The region, where the famous seaside resort of Varadero is located, has been closed since the beginning of July to Cuban tourists but not to foreigners, the vast majority of them Russians but also Canadians.

State television showed images of the arrival in Matanzas, 100 kilometers east of Havana, of a first group of doctors and nurses, out of a total of 500 expected in the coming days in order to make faced with the "complex epidemiological situation".

7:59 am.

“It's a piece of caution, it's a recommendation that I insist on.

Better to go to France or to another country than Spain or Portugal ”

, insists Clément Beaune, Secretary of State for European Affairs on France 2.

7:55 am.

“For those who have not yet booked their holidays, avoid Spain and Portugal,” says Clément Beaune

.

“We are not excluding any track, but the Delta variant is everywhere in Europe.

We are particularly monitoring the situation in countries where the outbreak is very rapid, including Portugal and Catalonia ”.

7:50 a.m.

Arrival in Tokyo of the President of the IOC two weeks before the Olympics weighed down by the pandemic

.

The president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, arrived in Tokyo on Thursday two weeks before the scheduled opening of the Olympic Games, which are lead by the pandemic.

Mr. Bach greeted reporters upon his arrival at the hotel where he will be required to adhere to a three-day quarantine.

He landed in Tokyo the day the Japanese government debated a new state of health emergency that could reduce or completely ban spectators at the Games.

7:42 am.

Véran and Attal on the front line of youth vaccination.

Véran and Attal will make a joint trip around the vaccination of young people: complexities, fears, waiting ... at the end of the morning at La Défense Arena.

7:32.

The first injection appointments still on the rise in France.

After the + 40% on Monday and the + 10% on Tuesday, the number of appointments for a first injection booked Wednesday on Doctolib increased by 25% compared to the previous Wednesday.

7:28.

Scientists are pushing for a postponement of deconfinement in the United Kingdom.

100 scientists from around the world in The Guradian newspaper ask the British government to postpone the last stage of deconfinement in the United Kingdom, scheduled for July 19.

7:19 am.

Risk of the fourth wave of Covid-19 in France: what to fear?

The government is raising its tone in the face of the takeover of the Delta variant and the epidemic rebound observed in certain regions.

Overview of a situation which, in France, hovers like a threat over the summer and especially over the start of the school year.

To read here.

7:06 am.

Japan: the government is preparing to re-establish a state of emergency in the run-up to the Olympics.

The Japanese government confirms this Thursday its intention to establish a new state of health emergency for the duration of the Tokyo Olympics which are due to open in two weeks, foreshadowing the Olympics with few or no spectators.

Japanese media have raised the possibility of a closed session at most of the Olympic venues in Greater Tokyo.

6:45 am.

4th wave, defense advice… what to remember from Gabriel Attal's speech

.

The government spokesperson warns of the "risk of a rapid 4th wave", while the incidence rate is on the rise in a large majority of the country.

6:35 am.

28 new deaths in France in the last 24 hours.

A total of 111,288 people have lost their lives since the start of the epidemic.

6.30 a.m.

In France, 7,539 people are hospitalized.

According to the report of Public Health France, 997 of them are in critical care.

The hospital situation is improving.

6:25 am.

Compulsory vaccination of caregivers: the executive seeks consensus

.

With the exception of the RN, the political class is not opposed to the idea.

A bill is in preparation.

Our topic to read here.

6:20 am.

The Landes lift the last restrictions, with a few exceptions.

Les Landes, one of the departments most affected by Covid-19, lifts the last confinement restrictions, in view of a "stable" health situation, while deciding to extend certain measures for 15 days.

6:10 am.

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Source: leparis

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