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Covid-19: Macron launches a new call for vaccination

2021-08-06T16:42:24.961Z


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


The fourth wave is confirmed at the hospital, Macron's new call for vaccination, anti-pass demonstrations planned for Saturday ...

Le Figaro

takes stock this Friday, August 6 on the latest information related to the Covid pandemic.

  • "

    The hospital impact of the 4th wave is confirmed

    ", indicates Public Health France

"

The increase in the number of new hospitalizations and admissions in critical care accelerated

" last week, "

confirming the hospital impact of this fourth epidemic wave

" of Covid-19, indicates Friday Public Health France, which notes a rejuvenation of hospitalized patients.

3,531 patients with Covid-19 were admitted to hospital last week, almost twice as many (+ 92%) as the previous week, indicates the health agency in its weekly update on the pandemic.

The week before, this increase was only 51%.

In critical care services, which take care of the most seriously ill, admissions doubled (+ 98% to 746) after an increase of 81% the previous week.

"

The number of deaths linked to Covid-19 has increased for the second week in a row

", with 272 deaths last week, or 93% more than the previous week.

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  • The pandemic has accelerated in most parts of the world this week

With 612,000 contaminations recorded daily in the world this week, the indicator has accelerated (+ 6% compared to the previous week), according to an AFP report stopped on Thursday. This week, only the Latin America / Caribbean area saw its situation improve, with 13% fewer new cases compared to the previous week. The pandemic accelerated in all other regions: + 44% in the United States / Canada, + 20% in Oceania, + 11% in the Middle East, + 6% in Asia, + 3% in Europe and +1 % in Africa.

Israel is the country where the epidemic accelerated the most (+ 101%, 3,000 new cases per day), among those having recorded at least 1,000 daily infections during the past week.

Israel, which is among the most vaccinated countries in the world and which has started administering third doses to seniors, had seen its incidence rate drop below 10 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the spring.

The indicator has now risen to 243. Followed by Japan (+ 97%, 11,200), which is currently hosting the Olympic Games without spectators, Turkey (+ 56%, 26,000), Pakistan (+ 54%, 4,800) and Morocco (+ 49%, 8400).

Read also: Covid-19: are children more at risk for the Delta variant?

  • Macron's new call for vaccination

"

Get vaccinated

": President Emmanuel Macron launched on Friday, in a new video on social networks, an urgent call for vaccination, which he presented as "

a question of citizenship

", "

the very pact of a nation

”.

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": Emmanuel Macron defends the extension of the health pass

  • At the end of July, 87% of people admitted to critical care were not vaccinated according to the Drees

"

At the end of July, the entry into critical care is 12 times less within the fully vaccinated population than among unvaccinated people

" against Covid-19, according to a study published on Friday by the Directorate of Research, Studies, evaluation and statistics (Drees).

Between July 19 and 25, 87% of people admitted to critical care and 83% of those admitted to conventional hospitalization were unvaccinated, details the Drees.

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  • For opponents of the health pass, a fourth consecutive Saturday of mobilization

For the fourth consecutive Saturday, demonstrations "

for freedom

" and "

against the health dictatorship

" are scheduled Saturday in more than 150 cities in France, after the final validation of the extension of the health pass by the Constitutional Council. In the middle of summer, the processions have continued to gain in importance since the introduction, on July 21, of the pass (total vaccination, negative Covid-19 test or certificate of recovery) in certain places of leisure and culture. They gathered more than 204,000 people on July 31, against 161,000 a week earlier, according to the Interior Ministry. “

We expect the same number of demonstrators globally

,” predicts a police source.

To read also: "They did nothing but lie": in Paris, protesters anti-health pass driven by the same mistrust

  • Green light for preventive treatment for the immunocompromised

Immunocompromised people, at high risk of developing a severe form of Covid and in whom the vaccines do not work well, may receive preventive treatment with monoclonal antibodies, especially if they are in contact, announced Friday the High Authority for Health (HAS ).

"

Immunocompromised patients who are not protected despite a complete vaccination

" will benefit from an "

early access authorization

" to Ronapreve (casirivimab and imdevimab) "

as pre-exposure or post-exposure prophylaxis to Sars-CoV-2

", she said in a press release.

This authorization is granted for five months, specifies the HAS, which will reassess its interest "

within a maximum period of two months

".

Read also: Has Ivermectin allowed India to break the epidemic wave?

  • No link established "

    to date

    " between Covid vaccines and period disorders

"To date,

we cannot establish a link between the vaccination

" against Covid-19 "

and menstrual disorders

," said the Medicines Agency (ANSM) on Friday, after the analysis of some 300 reported cases.

In recent weeks, "

261 cases of menstrual disorders, including 30 serious (most often associated with other side effects such as flu-like syndrome), were analyzed in women with a median age of 36.5 years

" after an injection of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine.

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  • Germany imposes a quarantine for travelers coming from the south of France

Germany will impose from Sunday a quarantine for unimmunized travelers from the French regions Occitanie, Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur and Corsica facing a resurgence of Covid-19 cases, announced the Robert Koch Institute for Public Health Surveillance (RKI).

Travelers coming from these tourist regions in the south of France will have to observe a quarantine of 10 days if they do not have a health pass proving that they have been vaccinated twice or are considered as cured, a period of isolation which may however be reduced to five days upon presentation of a negative test.

Read also: Covid and travel: what the health pass allows in the different countries of Europe

  • Colombia: more containment for the unvaccinated

The town hall of Sucre, a city in northwestern Colombia, on Thursday lifted the confinement imposed on residents resistant to vaccination against Covid-19.

The order imposing this measure "

is not considered viable

" because it is not possible to target unvaccinated people, said Elvira Julia Mercado, mayor of the city.

The municipality has the necessary doses to immunize its citizens but, according to the mayor, only 10,000 inhabitants are vaccinated due to the circulation of false information on vaccines.

Colombia is the third Latin American country with the most deaths per capita after Peru and Brazil.

Read also: Covid-19: Emmanuel Macron's digital offensive on vaccines

  • CNN: three unvaccinated employees dismissed

CNN announced to its staff that three employees had been sacked for violating the channel's health policy, by coming to work without being vaccinated against Covid-19, according to American media.

  • 200 million cases worldwide

More than 200 million cases have been recorded worldwide since the end of 2019 and the pandemic has killed at least 4.26 million people, according to a count made by AFP on Friday from official reports. The United States is the country with the most deaths (615,320), ahead of Brazil (560,706), India (426,754), Mexico (243,165) and Peru (196,760). The World Health Organization 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.

Source: lefigaro

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