The Moderna vaccine approved for 12-17 year olds in France, the state of emergency declared in Guadeloupe, half of Germans vaccinated ...
Le Figaro
takes stock this Wednesday, July 28 on the latest information related to the Covid pandemic -19.
To discover
Covid-19: what we know about the Delta variant
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Nearly 1,000 patients in intensive care in French hospitals
The pressure on hospitals is increasing again this Wednesday.
7,208 patients suffering from Covid-19 were hospitalized in France, a figure up from the previous day (7,137).
Among them, 490 people entered the hospital in the last 24 hours.
The number of people in intensive care was also on the rise.
992 patients were in intensive care on Wednesday, against 978 on Tuesday.
91 people have been admitted in the last 24 hours.
40 people have also died in hospital since the day before, bringing the total death toll since the start of the epidemic to 85,225 dead in French hospitals.
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HAS approves the use of Moderna vaccine for 12-17 year olds
The High Authority for Health gave the green light on Wednesday for the use of the Moderna vaccine for 12-17 year olds, which had already received a marketing authorization in Europe on July 24.
"In the context of a strong circulation of the Delta variant, the HAS validates the integration of the Moderna vaccine into the vaccine strategy"
, extended to adolescents since mid-June with the authorization given to a vaccination with the product Pfizer-BioNTech , announced the independent public body, in a press release.
Read also: Moderna's vaccine is now available to adolescents
The state of emergency declared in Guadeloupe, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélémy
The state of health emergency will be declared Wednesday at midnight in Guadeloupe, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy to
"take all the necessary measures to protect local hospitals which could quickly find themselves under high tension"
with the resurgence of Covid-19 case, the government spokesperson said.
"In Guadeloupe, only 15% of the population is fully vaccinated"
, with an incidence rate now of 305 per 100,000 inhabitants, a six-fold increase in fifteen days.
In Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy,
"the incidence rate reached 1,714 cases per 100,000 inhabitants"
, underlined Gabriel Attal at the end of the Council of Ministers.
This exceptional regime makes it possible in particular to limit the movement of people, or even to order local re-containment in the event of overly active circulation of the virus.
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In France, new measures have also been taken on the island of Aix, wedged between those of Ré and Oléron in Charente-Maritime. The town hall is stepping up measures to fight Covid-19 in the face of the influx of tourists. Mayor Patrick Denaud thus issued a decree on Tuesday establishing a curfew from midnight to 6 a.m., in order to avoid gatherings at night, favorable to the spread of the virus. But the prefecture of Charente-Maritime replied on Wednesday that this decision
"is not based on legal grounds and therefore cannot be applicable".
The prefecture, however, agreed to put in place new measures such as the strengthening of controls on barrier measures and the wearing of masks.
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Details on the health pass in France
The French Minister for Transport indicated that the extension of the health pass, certifying a vaccination in order or a negative PCR test, to long-distance transport will come into force
"between August 7 and 10"
.
The controls will be
"massive"
but
"not systematic".
Regarding schools, at the start of the school year, only non-vaccinated middle and high school students will have to follow distance learning courses if a case of Covid is detected in their class, said the Minister of Education.
One in two French people is now fully vaccinated, according to the authorities.
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The new law on anti-Covid measures, including the health pass, will come into force on August 9, said the government spokesman, four days after the expected decision of the Constitutional Council.
Gabriel Attal deplored a health situation
"which continues to worsen and which remains worrying".
"We now have more than 19,000 cases per day on average, it is 97% more than a week ago,"
he said, describing a map of France
"now almost entirely red".
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England exempts travelers vaccinated in EU and US from quarantine
Travelers fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in the European Union and the United States will now be exempt from quarantine in England, a long-awaited expatriate measure that does not apply to arrivals from France, the British government announced on Wednesday. .
This measure, for which the tourism sector also fervently campaigned, will come into force from Monday at 04:00 (03:00 GMT), said the Ministry of Transport.
For countries classified as "orange", the vast majority of tourist destinations, including the EU and the United States, the United Kingdom imposes a quarantine between five and 10 days on travelers and expensive tests.
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He had already exempted from quarantine travelers vaccinated by the British health service but not those vaccinated abroad, to the dismay of British expatriates in these countries for whom it is very difficult to return home.
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Covid-19: Boris Johnson urges caution despite a drop in cases
Half of Germans vaccinated
More than half of the population living in Germany, or 41.8 million people, is now fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the Minister of Health announced on Wednesday, as the country worries about a rise in infection curves.
There is still a long way to go to reach 80% of vaccines, the threshold targeted by the country to achieve collective immunity.
Several voices, including Angela Merkel's right-hand man, have recently suggested imposing restrictions on the unvaccinated.
A health pass is already in force in Denmark, Hungary, France and soon in Italy.
Read also: In Germany, more than half of the population is fully vaccinated against Covid-19
Rapid saliva tests not reliable enough, slices the HAS
The High Authority for Health (HAS) believes Wednesday that the rapid saliva screening tests for Covid-19
"present performance that is too heterogeneous"
, and
therefore
"suspends"
its recommendation for
the coverage
of these devices by Social Security.
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From
"New data available (...) reveals a high variability of the results, questioning their effectiveness.
In addition, reliable alternatives with the same levels of acceptability or speed now exist
,
”
explains HAS in a press release.
These so-called
“integrated”
tests
give a result on the presence or absence of the virus in about forty minutes, from a sample of saliva.
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Tokyo: an "Olympic prison", denounce isolated athletes
Tested positive, quarantined in a hotel and deprived of competition at the Tokyo Olympics, Dutch sportswomen denounced an
“Olympic prison” on
Wednesday
, demanding more time in the open air.
“Nothing opens. The windows are closed, the doors never open, ”
lamented a skater. Each cloistered in their rooms, the Dutch can only go out to get their meal, which is
"the same every day,"
lamented a taëkwondoist.
The Japanese capital also reported 3,117 cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, a new local record erasing that of the day before, and a very strong acceleration compared to last week.
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike once again called on her constituents to avoid
"unnecessary and non-urgent outings".
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Patent lifting on vaccines: no progress at the WTO
No progress has taken place Tuesday at the World Trade Organization on the idea of a temporary lifting of patents on anti-Covid vaccines to increase their production, said the spokesman of the WTO after a meeting member states at the organization's headquarters in Geneva.
A new official meeting is scheduled for October.
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Norway again postpones its full reopening
"During July, the Delta variant became, as expected, the dominant variant in Norway,"
Health Minister Bent Høie said at a press conference, stressing that the share of contaminations due to this variant
"was increasing"
in the kingdom.
"The evolution in several European countries affected by the Delta is worrying, even in countries where vaccination coverage is higher than in Norway (...) The government has therefore (...) chosen not to implement is implementing the fourth phase of the reopening plan now, ”
he announced.
This final lifting of restrictions had already been postponed at the beginning of July to the end of July or the beginning of August.
The situation will now be reassessed "mid-August" according to the Minister of Health.
Read also: Covid-19: Norway gives up AstraZeneca vaccine and suspends Johnson & Johnson's
Return to the mask in high-risk areas in the United States
Vaccinated Americans must once again wear the mask indoors in high-risk areas, a measure imposed on Tuesday by health authorities, at a time when the Delta variant causes a sharp rise in cases, especially in regions less well covered by the vaccine .
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For Biden, unvaccinated people "sow enormous confusion"
Covax hopes to get 250 million doses in six to eight weeks, WHO says
The Covax system expects to receive 250 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine provided by donors over the next six to eight weeks to help poorer countries, the World Organization said on Wednesday. Health (WHO).
Covax, which is supposed to allow those states or territories to receive vaccines funded by more prosperous nations free of charge, has so far distributed 152 million doses to 137 of them.
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More than 4.17 million dead
The pandemic has killed more than 4.17 million people worldwide since the end of December 2019, according to a report established by AFP on Wednesday at 10:00 GMT.
The United States is the country with the most deaths (611,288), ahead of Brazil (551,835) and India (422,022).
The WHO estimates, taking into account the excess mortality directly and indirectly linked to Covid-19, that the toll of the pandemic could be two to three times higher than that which is officially established.
