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Wearing a mask, vaccination booster, testing in schools ... The Ministers of Health and National Education announced Thursday noon a series of measures aimed at stemming the fifth wave of Covid-19, which "will undoubtedly be stronger, longer than the fourth wave ”.
Among the main measures announced Thursday: the booster vaccination, which opens to all adults from this Saturday.
The regulatory waiting period between the vaccine and this booster dose is reduced from 6 to 5 months.
In France, the latest report from Public Health France reports 8,981 people hospitalized because of Covid-19 in 24 hours.
They were a thousand fewer a week ago.
In total, 118,753 people have died from the coronavirus in France since the start of 2020.
The issue of vaccination of 5-11 year olds returned to the table on Thursday, with the endorsement issued by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to vaccinate this age group with Pfizer's vaccine.
If it used it, France would not do it before "early 2022", said Olivier Véran.
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Rush for the third dose.
The platform recorded a record number of appointments on Thursday for a booster dose, the vast majority of which were booked by people under 60, eligible from tomorrow.
The previous days seem very small: 1.2 million appointments for a booster dose were booked on Doctolib yesterday.
More than 80% were taken by people under 60, who generally became eligible overnight.
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6:45 am. “This booster dose causes a very important immune response. "
The infectious disease specialist Olivier Bouchaud, guest of France Inter this Friday morning, recalls the benefit of the booster dose. "We can not exclude that in a few months it will be necessary to do a fourth dose, but we are hopeful that this is not necessary, he says elsewhere. (…) On the other hand, a booster dose each year, that's something that is possible. "
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Action reaction.
After Thursday's announcements, members of the government invest the morning radio and TV.
Among other interventions, the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer will be the guest of France Inter, and the government spokesperson Gabriel Attal that of BFMTV-RMC.
This new battle against Covid-19 is also commented on this Friday morning by infectious diseases specialists Olivier Bouchaud (France Inter, 6:20 a.m.) Benjamin Davido (Franceinfo, 8:30 a.m.).
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