The management of the Covid-19 pandemic currently has two faces in France.
The government maintains for Monday the lifting of a certain number of restrictions such as that of the mask inside, with the exception of transport, as well as the suspension of the vaccine pass.
At the same time, contamination is on the rise again.
But faced with an Omicron variant less virulent than its predecessors, the projections, from the Institut Pasteur in particular, are not alarmist.
The justice of the peace will be the situation in the hospitals.
Le Parisien takes stock of the main points of this Saturday.
A record incidence rate in Martinique.
In this region of the West Indies, the incidence rate was multiplied by 5 in just six days, in the wake of the carnival.
It reaches 3,377 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Health pass, mask at school and curfew from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m. remain in effect on site.
Contamination on the rise in mainland France.
For the seventh day in a row, the number of contaminations in metropolitan France in 24 hours is higher than that of the same day of the previous week.
The number of positive cases identified in 24 hours is, for the seventh consecutive day, higher than that of the same day of the previous week: + 25.3% this evening.
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More than 140,000 dead in France.
The bar of 140,000 people who died in France due to Covid-19 has now been exceeded.
More than 18 million deaths in the world?
The Covid-19 pandemic would have caused more than 18 million deaths worldwide between the beginning of 2020 and the end of 2021, more than three times the official toll, according to a study published in the journal The Lancet.
Many patients would not have been registered as such in a number of countries with an insufficiently efficient health system.
The definition of “Covid death” also varies by region.
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No public release for Elizabeth II.
Queen Elizabeth II said on Friday evening that she would not attend a religious service at Westminster Abbey in London (United Kingdom) on Monday, which was to mark her first major outing after several months of fragile health. , and three weeks after catching Covid-19.
She "will continue with other scheduled engagements, including in-person engagements in the coming week," her department said.
