Vaccination of children on the menu of the Health Defense Council, negative test to go to the United Kingdom and first cases of the Omicron variant in Senegal ...
Le Figaro
takes stock this Monday, December 6 on the latest information related to the Covid pandemic -19.
More than 40,000 cases, 49 deaths in the last 24 hours in France
According to Public Health France on Sunday, 42,252 new cases of Covid-19 contamination have been detected in the past 24 hours.
Over the past seven days, the average of new daily cases stands at 42,459, against less than 28,000 a week ago, testifying to the acceleration of this wave.
49 people have also died from the Covid.
Read the file Fifth wave: where are we with the Covid-19 epidemic?
Vaccination of children on the menu of the Defense Council on Monday
The vaccination of 5-11 year olds against Covid-19 will be on the program of the Health Defense Council on Monday, according to a document from the Ministry of Health consulted by AFP, which mentions the announcement of a "
precise schedule
" after this meeting.
A government source, however, told AFP that the decision remains suspended on the advice of several bodies, including the National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE) which has not yet responded to the executive's referral on this matter. topic.
Read also Parents wary of the vaccine for their children
The High Authority for Health (HAS) has not given the green light to the vaccination of all 5-11 years, which it recommends for the moment only to 360,000 children "
who present a risk of having a form. severe illness
”.
"
Encouraging
"
signals
on the seriousness of Omicron, according to Anthony Fauci
The first "
signals
" regarding the severity of cases linked to the Omicron variant are "
a little encouraging,
" said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House adviser on the health crisis, on Sunday.
Read alsoCovid-19: first cases of local transmission of Omicron, the United States tightens its conditions of entry into the territory
"
Clearly in South Africa Omicron is spreading more,
" he told CNN.
“
But so far, even though it's too early to draw any firm conclusions, it doesn't look like it has a high degree of seriousness,
” he said.
Omicron: Denmark "
concerned
" by soaring number of cases
Denmark, one of the most advanced countries in Europe for detecting variants, has announced a “
worrying
”
jump
to 183 confirmed cases of the new Omicron variant, suggesting that the number of cases elsewhere in Europe could be greatly underestimated.
Brussels: clashes during a demonstration against the restrictions
Clashes opposed demonstrators to the police on Sunday in Brussels, noted AFP journalists, during a rally of opponents of measures against Covid which brought together 8,000 people according to the police.
Test negative to travel to UK
Travelers to the UK will be required to test negative before departure, the UK government said, a move badly received by the travel industry, which was just starting to recover from the shock of the pandemic.
Read also Coronavirus: the United Kingdom acquires 114 million additional vaccines
"
In order to slow down the importation of the new variant
", any person aged 12 and over wishing to go to this country will have to present a negative test from Tuesday, carried out at most 48 hours before departure, specified the executive.
Omicron variant: first three cases in Senegal
Senegal has detected three first cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in travelers preparing to travel to countries in Africa, research laboratories in this country have announced.
Read also Covid-19 in Africa: growth hampered by low vaccination
Riyadh will accept travelers vaccinated with Sputnik
Saudi Arabia will accept from January 1, 2022 travelers vaccinated with the Russian Sputnik V, Moscow announced.
To read also "Seen from elsewhere" N ° 38 - Sputnik V, the Russian vaccine in orbit
This decision will allow Muslims vaccinated with this serum, to participate in pilgrimages to Mecca and Medina, according to the Russian Sovereign Fund which financed the design of the vaccine.
Jordan: three years in prison for the death of ten patients
A Jordanian court on Sunday sentenced the director and four officials of a hospital treating Covid-19 patients for negligence to three years in prison, after an oxygen shortage that had caused the death of ten patients.
This tragedy, which had aroused great emotion in Jordan and the anger of its king Abdullah II, had led to the resignation of the Minister of Health Nazir Obeidat.
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Two health passes in Italy before Christmas
From this Monday, the "basic
green pass
" will be valid for 48 hours with the negative result of an antigen test and 72 hours with that of a PCR test, in Italy.
It will be compulsory to travel by bus, metro, tram and suburban train, but will not allow access to certain places or certain activities (cinema, theater, public festivals, etc.)
Read also Travel to Italy and Covid-19: super health pass, vaccine, restrictions ... What you need to know to go there this winter
The “
super green pass
”, meanwhile, will be valid for nine months for those vaccinated, and six for people recently cured of Covid.
These measures will be applied at least until January 15, 2022.
More than 5.2 million dead
The pandemic has killed at least 5,249,851 people worldwide since the WHO office in China reported the onset of the disease at the end of December 2019, according to a report established by AFP from official sources Sunday at 11:00 GMT.
The United States is the most bereaved country with 788,363 dead, ahead of Brazil (615,636), India (473,326), Mexico (295,155) and Russia (281,278).
The WHO estimates, taking into account the excess mortality directly and indirectly linked to Covid-19, that the toll of the pandemic in the world could be two to three times higher.
