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Transmissibility, symptoms, resistance to vaccines ... Everything we do not yet know about the Omicron variant.
103 new deaths, nearly 1,050 hospital admissions and 1,749 patients hospitalized in critical care: the latest figures for the epidemic in France.
A positive case for the Omicron variant identified in Reunion, this would be the first identified in France.
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6:16.
Fiji will reopen in December despite the Omicron variant.
Fiji will continue their project to reopen the borders to international travelers despite the threat of the new variant of Covid-19 Omicron.
Fiji had set a December 1 date to reopen to foreign holidaymakers to revive its tourism-dependent economy devastated since the pandemic forced borders to close in March 2020. Foreign visitors will need to be fully vaccinated and tested for HIV. of Covid-19 before their departure.
Once in Fiji, they will stay in designated areas where all their contacts will be fully immunized.
6:15 am.
One positive case for the Omicron variant identified in Reunion Island.
The patient tested positive is "a 53-year-old man" who traveled to Mozambique and "made a stopover in South Africa" before coming to Reunion, said microbiologist Patrick Mavingui, researcher of the Joint Process Research Unit. infectious disease in tropical island environments (PIMIT), on the airwaves of Réunion la 1ere (France Television Group). This would be the first positive case identified in France. Placed in solitary confinement as well as his entourage, "the man suffers from muscle pain and fatigue", declared the scientist. The PIMIT was mobilized "urgently" Sunday evening, "for the sequencing of six tests," said the microbiologist. "The results arrived a few hours ago (...) there is a positive case", added the scientist. The other five samples are negative.
This information comes as the Ministry of Health said in a statement on Sunday that it "monitors with particular attention the overseas territories of Reunion and Mayotte which are in direct or indirect connection with (the seven) countries" of Africa Austral with which air links have been suspended since Friday.
On Sunday, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran had announced that eight “possible” cases of carriers of the Omicron variant had been detected in France.
6:15 am.
Where was Omicron born?
From South Africa to Europe, it only took a few days for it to be detected everywhere.
Yet no one knows where it actually hatched.
6:10 am.
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