A "
5th wave
" in France, the Academy of Medicine does not recommend the vaccine for all children, Sweden is going to introduce a vaccination pass for the first time ...
Le Figaro
takes stock this Wednesday, November 17 on the latest information linked to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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A “
5th wave
” in France, but not yet a breaking wave
France is in turn hit by the fifth wave of the Covid-19 epidemic but the country hopes to be able to contain it and get through the winter without additional measures thanks to the tools put in place, foremost among which is vaccination.
The "
5th wave is here
", warned government spokesman Gabriel Attal on Wednesday during the Council of Ministers report.
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For two weeks, the number of contaminations has increased very rapidly, in the order of 40 to 50% per week. The incidence rate, which measures the number of coronavirus cases per 100,000 inhabitants, is now over 100 across the country. "
It is particularly high in Corsica, Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur and the Pays de la Loire region
", warned Gabriel Attal.
According to figures from Public Health France published Tuesday evening, nearly 20,000 new contaminations have been recorded in the last 24 hours, a record since the end of August. The government wants to be reassuring despite everything: "
We have good reasons to think that (the 5th wave) will not win everything in its path
", thanks to "
the effectiveness of the vaccine
", the health pass and respect for gestures. barrier, the spokesperson said. "
We feel a shudder, a slightly greater than 10% increase in patients hospitalized for Covid over a week and this therefore calls for vigilance
", noted Gabriel Attal, while describing a "
decorrelation
" between "
contamination and hospitalizations
" .
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Everywhere the epidemic is accelerating and the virus is
gaining ground
", warns Gabriel Attal
The health care system will "
probably have the capacity to cope
"
The French healthcare system “
probably has the capacity
” to cope with the fifth wave, if “
all the tools
” such as vaccination and barrier gestures are used to the maximum, declared Wednesday the President of the Scientific Council, Prof. Jean- François Delfraissy. Asked about France Inter, Professor Jean-François Delfraissy added that in his eyes, "
we will very likely have to go towards a third dose
" of vaccine "
in the general population
", beyond the most fragile. "
There is no emergency for (the) younger population, because it was vaccinated later
" he added, stressing that he was speaking "
in a personal capacity
" on this topic.
The booster dose will be opened in December for those over 50 years old.
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The Academy of Medicine does not recommend the vaccine for all children
Anti-Covid vaccines should not be given to all children but some of them should benefit from them, said the French Academy of Medicine on Wednesday, taking a middle position in the face of renewed controversy on the subject.
The Academy, whose opinions are advisory, "
recommends extending immunization against Covid-19 by the vaccine (from Pfizer / BioNTech) to children at risk of severe forms due to comorbidities, regardless of their age, as well as to other children living in their family and school environment
”.
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Novavax files an application for authorization of its vaccine in the EU
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced on Wednesday that it had started evaluating an application for authorization in the EU for the anti-Covid vaccine from the American pharmaceutical company Novavax, specifying that an opinion could be issued in "
a few weeks
”. "
The EMA has started to assess a conditional marketing authorization application for Novavax's anti-Covid vaccine,
" the European regulator said in a
press
release. "
The evaluation will take place on an accelerated schedule
," said the EMA, indicating that an opinion on the marketing authorization could be issued "
in a few weeks
".
This vaccine, which could become the fifth vaccine authorized in the European Union, uses a different technology from those used for vaccines already widely authorized in the world.
It is a so
-
called "
subunit
" vaccine
, based on proteins that trigger an immune response, without viruses.
It can be stored at a temperature between 2 and 8 ° C, which could facilitate its distribution.
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Sweden to introduce vaccination pass for the first time
Sweden will establish from December 1 and for the first time a vaccination pass for domestic events of more than 100 people, in the face of the surge in Covid-19 contaminations in Europe, the government announced on Wednesday. The Nordic country, which had decided from November 1 to no longer test people fully vaccinated against Covid-19, even in the event of symptoms, also decided to reverse this criticized decision.
Even if Sweden currently records few cases unlike many European countries, the country "
is not isolated from the rest of the world
", underlined the Minister of Health Lena Hallengren during a press conference.
The presentation of a vaccination certificate, which had been recommended a little earlier by the public health authority, excludes the youngest - the government still has to choose between a threshold of 16 or 18 years.
Events applying the measure will be exempt from other restrictions.
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would have been so much simpler and more incentive
", regrets Dr Gilbert Deray
Portugal: new restrictions envisaged
Portugal, one of the countries with the highest vaccination rate (86%) against Covid-19, is considering new restrictions to cope with a resurgence of the epidemic marked by an increase in hospitalizations and the number of cases.
President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa defended Tuesday evening the return of the mandatory mask wearing outdoors.
Socialist Prime Minister Antonio Costa also hinted on Tuesday that the country could reinstate certain measures, especially in the run-up to the end of the year holidays in the face of the increase in the number of cases in Europe.
The government will make decisions after a meeting scheduled for Friday with scientific experts.
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Covax crosses the 500 million dose mark
The international Covax mechanism has crossed the threshold of 500 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine distributed around the world, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi) announced on Wednesday.
“
Thanks to the incredible dedication and hard work of partners and healthcare staff, Covax has distributed 500 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine to 144 countries and territories,
” Gavi Executive Director Seth said on Twitter. Berkley.
This international funding mechanism, founded in particular by the Vaccine Alliance and the World Health Organization, is supposed to allow 92 disadvantaged states and territories to receive free vaccines funded by more prosperous nations.
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Slow immunization threatens financial stability
The European Central Bank (ECB) said on Wednesday that the slow pace of the Covid-19 vaccination in some parts of the world could threaten financial stability, even if the economic recovery is already well underway.
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End of the Roche-Atea partnership for an anti-Covid tablet
The Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche has ended its partnership with Atea Pharmaceuticals on an anti-Covid tablet, he announced overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, the treatment having suffered a setback in clinical trials.
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More than 5.1 million deaths worldwide
The pandemic has killed at least 5,113,287 people around the world since the end of December 2019, according to an assessment established by AFP from official sources on Wednesday in the middle of the day.
The United States is the country with the most deaths (765,913), ahead of Brazil (611,478), India (464,153), Mexico (291,241) and Russia (259,084).
The World Health Organization (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.
