Concern is not yet on the agenda.
The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, traveling to the Ile-de-France Regional Health Agency, indicated on Tuesday April 27 that no case of the Indian variant "
has been identified in mainland France
".
This same variant which, currently, decimates the country of South Asia, where more than 300,000 daily cases are detected for a week.
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We know this because we are carrying out two complementary techniques to track down these variants,
" Olivier Véran told reporters from BFMTV.
First, the screening of PCR tests, which is a method that makes it possible to identify the English, Brazilian, South African and soon Indian variants if they were to appear.
And then what is called the sequencing of the genome of the virus.
We are looking at the genetic mapping of the virus.
We are doing more than 5,000 a week, soon it will be 8,000 a week.
And this allows us, through national surveys, to detect whether this or that variant takes up more space in the territory.
"
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The rule is that no dose of vaccine is thrown away
"
On the other hand, the Minister of Health mentioned an upsurge of the South African variant in Île-de-France.
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For a long week now, there has been an increase in the proportion of the South African variant, especially in the inner suburbs, which represented 6% of diagnoses and which now represents 10%,
" he said.
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As soon as a positive case of a variant is recorded, a whole logistics is put in place so that during the day, people who may have been in contact with these sick people are contacted to be sheltered and limit the spread. of these variants
"
,
he said.
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Finally, Olivier Véran clarified, regarding the vaccination campaign, that “
no dose
”
should be thrown away
.
“
The rule is that no dose of vaccine is thrown away.
If ever there was no priority vaccineable audience, the centers and doctors know what to do, that is to say contact audiences that may be younger but have co-morbidities.
"
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The rule is that no dose of vaccine is thrown away
"