France began this Saturday two weeks of confined school holidays, without travel between regions but with a curfew at 7 p.m. for everyone, in the hope of curbing the Covid-19 epidemic while the vaccination, still chaotic, accelerated.
Le Figaro
takes stock of the latest information related to Covid-19 this Saturday, April 10.
5,769 Covid patients in intensive care
The number of Covid-19 patients hospitalized in intensive care continued to increase, climbing to 5,769, the highest for nearly a year, according to figures released this Saturday by Public Health France.
It was 5,750 on Friday, an increase of 19 which shows a deceleration (but not a decrease) in momentum.
This figure has increased by a thousand in just 15 days.
And it hadn't been this high since April 17, 2020.
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The health agency said on Saturday that 388 people had been admitted to critical care services (resuscitation, intensive care, continuous monitoring) in 24 hours.
On Friday, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran estimated that these services would continue to fill up "
for at least 15 days
".
The number of hospitalized patients, however, fell on Saturday for the second day in a row, to 30,238.
Slow circulation of the virus
Encouraging sign, even before the closure of schools, the circulation of the virus continued to progress last week, but less quickly than the previous ones, "
which may testify to a slowdown
", noted Public Health France.
But if it were to be confirmed, the braking of the epidemic will have effects in the hospital only one to two weeks later.
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New vaccinations on the decline
The day after a "
record
"
day
of some 510,000 vaccinations Friday in France (against 400,000 Thursday), according to Olivier Véran, the pace slowed this Saturday, with just over 320,000 according to the Directorate General of Health.
The DGS lists 3.685 million people who received the two necessary injections, and 10.745 million a first injection (ie about 16% of the population who were first vaccinated).
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Saturday morning, Prime Minister Jean Castex, traveling to a vaccination center in Lyon, confirmed that the vaccination campaign would begin "
from next week
" for teachers over 50 in contact with disabled children.
“
These priorities, set by the State, must be the same everywhere on the national territory.
There can therefore be no vaccine policy with variable geometry according to the municipalities,
”said Matignon.
Underground restaurant: 110 arrests
More than 110 people gathered in a clandestine restaurant were fined in the nineteenth arrondissement of Paris on the night of Friday to Saturday, and the manager and the organizer were placed in custody, said this Saturday the police headquarters and the floor.
In a tweet, the police headquarters also confirmed an operation in an illegal restaurant in Saint-Ouen, which led to 62 verbalizations and the arrest of the manager, as revealed by BFMTV.
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In the wake of the Palais Vivienne affair, former minister Brice Hortefeux and BFMTV columnist Alain Duhamel admitted having participated in a clandestine dinner on March 30 organized by chef Christophe Leroy.