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Covid-19: Europe is still waiting for a green light for the Moderna vaccine

2021-01-05T06:52:42.707Z


UPDATE ON THE SITUATION - New reports, new measures, highlights: Le Figaro takes stock of the latest developments in the Covid-19 pandemic around the world.


England is reconfiguring itself, the slowness of vaccination is debated in France, Europe is still waiting for the Moderna vaccine ... To not miss any of the latest highlights related to Covid-19,

Le Figaro

takes stock of the latest news from this Monday, January 4.

  • The English are reconfining themselves

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Monday evening the full containment of England until mid-February, despite the rise of vaccination in the country, which has become the first in the world to administer the vaccine from the laboratory British AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford.

With more than 75,000 dead, the United Kingdom is one of the countries in Europe most bereaved by the Covid-19.

If Parliament is to debate these measures on Wednesday, Boris Johnson called on the population to follow the rules immediately.

Containment is to come into effect from 12:01 am on Wednesday.

Scotland had already announced total containment on Monday evening for the entire month of January.

  • Still no European decision on the Moderna vaccine

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has announced that it will ultimately not vote on the authorization of the Moderna vaccine on Monday evening, and its discussions will resume on Wednesday.

The European regulator, based in Amsterdam, authorized on December 21 the vaccine against Covid-19 Pfizer / BioNTech, for which the European Commission immediately gave the green light and which remains to this day the only vaccine authorized in Europe.

The Moderna vaccine, authorized since December 19 by the United States Medicines Agency (FDA), is taken in two doses, a few weeks apart, like the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine.

But Moderna's formula can be stored at -20 ° C, not -70 ° C like the Pfizer remedy.

  • In France, caregivers at risk will soon be vaccinated

Under fire from critics because of a very slow start to the vaccination campaign, the French government promises a rapid rise with injections for all caregivers at risk.

"By tomorrow evening and Wednesday", "there will be a hundred hospitals which will offer vaccination to their caregivers as well as to city carers

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assured the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran.

The opposition accuses the government of having implemented a strategy that is too cautious and too slow with only a few hundred people vaccinated so far.

Read also: Vaccine against the Covid: are France's objectives sufficiently ambitious?

  • Netherlands advances vaccination

The Netherlands have decided to bring forward the start of their vaccination campaign by two days to Wednesday.

This country is the last in the EU to embark on vaccination.

This slowness is, as in France, the object of criticism.

Tuesday, the Minister of Health Hugo de Jonge will answer for these delays in front of the parliament.

  • Lebanon is reconfiguring itself

The Lebanese authorities have announced a new confinement until the end of January, against the backdrop of an outbreak of cases of Covid-19 contamination during the holidays and a saturation of hospitals.

Since the start of the pandemic, more than 192,000 cases have been recorded in the country, including around 1,500 deaths.

  • Mexico approves AstraZeneca vaccine

After the United Kingdom, India and Argentina, Mexico has decided to authorize the vaccine from the British laboratory AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford against Covid-19.

Mexico is the fourth country most affected in the world by the pandemic which has killed more than 127,000 people.

  • Over 1.84 million dead

The new coronavirus pandemic has killed at least 1,844,000 people around the world, according to a latest report established on Monday by AFP.

The United States is the most affected country in terms of both deaths and cases, with 353,131 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University count.

Next come Brazil with 196,561 dead, India with 149,649 dead, Mexico with 127,213 dead and Italy with 75,332 dead.

Source: lefigaro

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