The essential
For the fourth day in a row, France has recorded more than 200,000 new contaminations in 24 hours.
The incidence rate is approaching 1,500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, a figure that has more than doubled in one week.
Although it is increasing less quickly, the number of hospitalizations continues to increase with 18,811 patients with Covid-19, including 3,560 in critical care.
Faced with the very large number of daily contaminations, the government has eased the isolation rules for fully vaccinated people.
They will apply from this Monday.
Follow the events of the day live:
8:10 am.
The required CO2 sensor.
The CO2 sensor at school "is imperative," said Robert Cohen, recalling that air quality and airborne transmission is one of the main challenges at school.
8:08 am.
The Covid, "not the emergency" in pediatrics.
"The number of pediatric hospitalizations for Covid-19 is not the essential problem", according to Robert Cohen Pediatrician and infectious disease specialist at Créteil hospital.
The Omicron variant "does not create more severe infections in children, but there will be more cases and that is also true in children," he says on Europe 1.
7:55 am.
Air traffic disrupted in the United States.
The United States has 2,725 flights canceled in one, more than half of the 4,618 that have been canceled globally, due to the Omicron surge.
Many pilots and flight crew members are absent after contracting Covid-19 or are in contact and therefore in quarantine.
7:40 am.
New curfew in Réunion.
Reunion Island is once again under curfew, for at least three weeks.
Set up by the prefect in the face of the surge in cases linked to Omicron, it extends from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.
7:35.
New rules for the unvaccinated too.
As of Monday, people positive for Covid-19 who do not have a complete vaccination schedule will have to isolate themselves for ten days, with a possible exit after seven with a negative test.
Contact cases not vaccinated or who have not been recalled in time will have to isolate themselves for seven days.
7:30 am.
Modification of isolation rules.
Faced with the Omicron surge, new isolation rules will apply as of Monday: people positive for Covid-19 whose vaccination schedule is complete will only have to isolate themselves for seven days.
An isolation which can be lifted after five days in the event of a negative antigen or PCR test.
As for vaccinated contact cases, they will no longer need to respect quarantine.
The details can be read in our article.
7.20 a.m.
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