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Mask at school, health pass, vaccination ... The measures announced after the Health Defense Council.
8,414 people hospitalized and 59 new deaths in France.
Massive screening at school does not only have advantages, according to the Minister of Education.
Over six billion doses of vaccine administered worldwide.
The Delta variant has largely replaced the other three variants of concern, according to the WHO.
Emmanuel Macron's QR code online, the caregivers at the origin of the leak "identified" by Health Insurance.
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7:46 am.
"A third injection is necessary".
According to Professor Eric Caumes, this will be necessary to cope with declining immunity from vaccines over time.
According to him, the virus will continue to circulate over time.
7.45 a.m.
"You have to start living normally", according to Professor Eric Caumes, head of the infectious diseases department at Pitié-Salpêtrière on RMC.
However, "we have to be vigilant" and the fact of keeping the sanitary pass "is a good thing".
7:30 am. People vaccinated abroad with a vaccine not validated by European authorities will be able to come to France.
According to a decree published in the Official Journal, if the vaccines are recognized by the WHO (eg Sinovac), people can come to France but will have to have a health pass by receiving an additional dose of Pfizer or Moderna.
7 hours. The Covid-19 pandemic will be over in a year, according to the boss of Moderna.
Stéphane Bancel, the director of Moderna believes that we should end the epidemic in a year during an interview broadcast by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. According to him, by mid-2022, "there will be enough doses to vaccinate all the inhabitants of the planet." However, the laboratory is working on developing "an annual booster that covers all respiratory diseases of viral origin," he says. “Each year, we will adapt to the strains of the year” and “each year, we want to add more viruses as we add an application to an iPhone”. These combination vaccines are expected to be on the market in 2023.,
6:45 am. A Brazilian minister of the delegation to the UN positive.
Brazilian Minister of Health Marcelo Queiroga was “tested positive for Covid-19 ″ after attending the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, inaugurated by President Jair Bolsonaro. "The other members of the delegation have been tested and are negative," assures the Brazilian Special Secretariat of Communication (Secom). President Jair Bolsonaro, who appeared without a mask on several occasions during the trip, was not vaccinated against Covid-19 and repeated that he would be "the last" Brazilian to receive the vaccine.
6.30 a.m. The pupils of Guadeloupe all return to school from Monday.
Students from Guadeloupe will return to school on Monday to follow face-to-face lessons after a partial return on September 13. As of September 27, primary, 6th and 5th grade students will have class. For 4th and 3rd year college students, a half-gauge is maintained at "50%", as is the case in high school, which applies this same "hybrid gauge" of alternation between presence in the establishment and lessons at home, specifies the rectorate in a press release. "The classes will close from the first positive case of Covid, with the class being placed in isolation for 7 days, and the continuation of remote learning", adds this press release.
6:20 am.
No salary for unvaccinated quarantined in Germany.
The wages of unvaccinated people will soon no longer be covered in Germany during periods of quarantine.
This decision, negotiated with the German regions, will come into force on November 1.
6:10 am.
Vaccination compulsory for American athletes at the next Olympic Winter Games.
American athletes selected for the next Olympic Winter Games, which will take place in February 2022 in Beijing, will participate on the condition of being vaccinated, according to guidelines from the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC).
6:05 am. The United States authorizes a third dose of Pfizer vaccine for the elderly or "at risk".
This authorization concerns people aged 65 and over as well as those at "risk", including because of a job particularly exposing them to the virus. This booster dose can be administered from six months after the second injection, the United States Medicines Agency (FDA) announced. Joe Biden's government would have liked to go further. He had announced that a large vaccine booster campaign from Pfizer and Moderna would be launched from the week of September 20 for all Americans eight months after their second injection.
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