The third dose now open to caregivers, no reduction in the health pass before November 15, lower the masks for new primary school students from Monday ...
Le Figaro
takes stock this Thursday, October 7 on the latest information related to the Covid -19 in the world.
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No reduction of the health pass before November 15, says Attal
There will be no "
adaptation
" of the health pass before November 15, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Thursday, calling for "
vigilance
" in the face of the risk of a resurgence of the Covid epidemic with the onset of winter.
The government "is
working on adaptations of the health pass
", because "
neither the mask, nor any other measure that exists today is eternal, and as soon as we can reduce them, obviously we will do it
", on the basis of recommendations from scientists, he explained after the Council of Ministers.
But "
the time to lift all the constraints has not come (...) If adaptation of the past there should be, it could not be considered before November 15,
" he stressed.
The law provides for the application of the health pass until November 15, and a bill to extend it beyond this date must be presented on October 13 in the Council of Ministers.
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Vaccines: the third dose now open to caregivers
All caregivers can now be injected with a third dose of anti-Covid vaccine, the government announced, following a notice published the day before by the High Authority of Health (HAS). “
We are implementing the opinion of the HAS: all caregivers will be affected by the booster dose, such as relatives of immunocompromised people. I call on all eligible people to quickly get their booster dose
, ”said the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, on Twitter.
"
As of today, caregivers who have been fully vaccinated (...) for more than six months can resort to the vaccine booster
", declared the spokesman of the government, Gabriel Attal, after the Health Defense Council then the Council ministers.
"
It is nearly three million caregivers who are affected by this opening of the vaccine booster campaign
," he continued.
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Pfizer says he asked
É
the United States approval of the vaccine for 5 to 11 years
The American laboratory Pfizer announced Thursday that it had formally filed a file asking the United States Medicines Agency, the FDA, for its green light for the vaccine developed with BioNTech against Covid-19 in children aged 5 to 11.
The group, which explained on Twitter that it had made a request for an emergency use authorization, had already submitted to the agency at the end of September the results of the trials of its vaccine for children of this age group.
The FDA has warned that once Pfizer's request is made, the process could still take "a
few weeks
" until the first shots can actually be taken.
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Take off the masks for new elementary school students
Wearing a mask will no longer be compulsory for primary school pupils in 21 new departments out of 101 from Monday, in addition to the 47 others already affected by this measure for pupils in five years of primary school (CP to CM2) .
Primary school students wore the mask at school for nearly a year, but the obligation is lifted in the departments "
where the incidence rate stabilizes below the threshold of 50 per 100,000 inhabitants
".
Teachers will have to continue to wear it.
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The Pyrénées-Atlantiques are also falling behind the mask
The Pyrénées-Atlantiques, with an incidence rate of Covid-19 well below the alert threshold, announced Thursday a reduction in health measures, with the end of the compulsory mask in establishments requiring a health pass (restaurants, bars, museums, libraries etc).
The mask also falls outside on Friday, with the exception of frequented places where the pass is not required, such as markets, flea markets, queues or demonstrations, according to a press release from the prefecture. .
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Health pass: 18,000 requests declared "
inadmissible
" by the ECHR
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) unanimously declared Thursday "
inadmissible
" the request filed by a professor of law against the health pass in France and the 18,000 "
standardized requests
" that accompanied it.
According to the ECHR, the objective of the academic was to cause "
the traffic jam, the congestion, the flood
" of the Court, to "
paralyze its functioning
" and "
to force (his) front door
" to “
Derail the system
”.
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New Caledonia: more deaths than expected
The Covid-19 epidemic, which has struck New Caledonia for a month, has already caused the death of 185 people - for a population of around 280,000 people - a figure higher than expected due to comorbidities and low immunity of the population, experts said.
Despite strict containment of the population of this French archipelago in the South Pacific, the mortality curve is around 40% higher than scientists' forecasts.
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Moderna to build vaccine production plant in Africa
The American biotechnology company Moderna has announced the upcoming construction in Africa of a messenger RNA vaccine factory with the goal of manufacturing up to 500 million doses per year.
The company did not specify in which country this production unit would be located.
"
We want to produce our vaccine against Covid-19 on this site as well as other messenger RNA vaccines
," Stéphane Bancel, the French boss of Moderna, said in a statement.
Moderna plans to invest $ 500 million in its African factory, the first on the continent, where it also plans to manufacture drugs and have a product packaging system.
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AstraZeneca vaccine arrives at the South Pole
After an extraordinary journey spanning four continents, completed in less than 92 hours, a shipment of AstraZeneca vaccines has just arrived at the British Antarctic base of Rothera, in the South Pole, inhabited by a handful of researchers.
The precious cargo, which will allow the 23 people ending the winter on the base to be vaccinated, left by military plane from the Brize Norton base (north-west of London), passing through Senegal and the Falkland Islands, before leaving arriving in a small plane at the British research base located on Adelaide Island, in the Antarctic Peninsula, according to the British Foreign Office.
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More than 4.8 million dead
The pandemic has killed at least 4,822,267 people around the world since the end of December 2019, according to a report established by AFP.
The United States is the most bereaved country with 707,788 deaths, followed by Brazil (599,359), India (449,856) and Mexico (280,607).
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.
