30,000 new in France, 6,000 closed classes, Europe which could count 700,000 additional deaths, Washington which advises against travel to Germany and Denmark ...
Le Figaro
takes stock this Tuesday, November 23 on the latest information related to the pandemic of Covid-19.
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30,000 cases in 24 hours in France
“Today, we will announce 30,000 cases over 24 hours,”
Olivier Véran announced to the National Assembly.
The figures for Tuesday are however still high since they include people who could not be tested on Sunday (only 5,000 positive cases were thus identified on Monday evening).
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In the hospital, the progression of the epidemic continues.
8,338 patients suffering from Covid are currently hospitalized in French hospitals on Tuesday, including 759 in 24 hours, against 8,038 the day before.
1,455 people have also been admitted to critical care, including 192 since the day before.
84 people have also died in French hospitals, bringing the toll to 91,713 hospital deaths since the start of the pandemic in France.
On the vaccination front, 51,768,323 people have received at least one injection (i.e. 76.8% of the total population) and 50,685,797 people now have a complete vaccination schedule (i.e. 75.2% of the total population), since the start of the vaccination campaign in France.
5,824,035 people also received a booster dose.
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The calendar of vaccine recalls, a major challenge for the Defense Council
The vaccine booster, for whom and when?
The Defense Council which takes place on Wednesday could provide answers to this question made urgent by the acceleration of the Covid-19 epidemic.
This meeting will allow
"to address the question of the extension of the third dose of the vaccine, considering the recommendations which we obtained from the various scientific and health authorities"
, indicated Tuesday the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran.
Friday, the High Authority of Health (HAS), recommended to inject the booster dose (most often a third dose) from 40 years, six months after the complete vaccination.
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One of the other challenges for the Defense Council will be to know from when the recall will be necessary to extend the medical pass according to the age groups.
For those over 65, this mechanism should in principle start on December 15.
The Scientific Council hopes that, as a second step, the recall will also become necessary to extend the health pass for 50-64 year olds.
In addition, the Defense Council could decide to make the mask compulsory again in certain places, including theaters.
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6000 closed classes
The Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer also told the National Assembly on Tuesday that 6,000 classes are currently closed in France, against just over 4,000 last Friday.
These are classes
"in primary school in particular, where we deploy saliva tests,"
said the minister.
"As I speak to you, 6000 classes are closed and I recall that last year, at the height of the epidemic, when we managed to keep the school open, we were still at 12,000 closed classes"
, a- he said.
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The French executive between firmness and dialogue in Guadeloupe
The French government wanted to be firm on Tuesday in the face of the violence that continues in Guadeloupe despite police reinforcements, while offering a
"forum for dialogue"
to respond to the social crisis linked to the anti-Covid vaccination obligation. The challenge of caregivers and firefighters started on November 15 turned into a social crisis punctuated by violence in this French department of the Caribbean, where a third of the population lives below the poverty line, and where the situation was still considered
"very difficult. "
the Minister of the Interior.
"The restoration of public order is obviously the prerequisite for any discussion"
, he said while Minister of Overseas deplored the shooting against the police.
The government is committed to providing professionals affected by the vaccination obligation with vaccines against Covid-19 without messenger RNA.
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Europe could count 700,000 more dead
The World Health Organization (WHO) was alarmed on Tuesday at the
"grip"
of Covid-19 in Europe which could cause 700,000 additional deaths on the continent, where the new health restrictions arouse anger. If the grim predictions of the WHO were to come true, that would bring the total number of deaths from the pandemic on the Old Continent to 2.2 million by the spring.
“The Europe Region remains in the grip of the Covid-19 pandemic. Last week, reported deaths from Covid-19 rose to nearly 4,200 per day, a doubling from the 2,100 daily deaths recorded at the end of September, ”
said the WHO.
“Hospital beds can be expected to be under high or extreme pressure in 25 countries and high or extreme pressure in intensive care units in 49 out of 53 countries by March 1, 2022. “
, She alerted in a statement.
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Washington advises against travel to Germany and Denmark
US authorities have advised Americans to avoid traveling to Germany and Denmark, hit hard by the new wave of the pandemic spreading in Europe.
The State Department issued two bulletins under Level 4, the highest level of warning, its level of alert for these two countries.
The announcement comes as Europe struggles to stem a new wave of the pandemic, amid sometimes violent protests against health restriction measures.
At least 21 arrests have taken place in the Netherlands after a fourth night of protests, bringing the total to more than 150 according to police since violence erupted.
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The European regulator will decide within "a few weeks" on the authorization of the Merck tablet
The European regulator said on Tuesday that it would vote within a few weeks on an application for authorization to market Merck's anti-Covid pill, molnupiravir, marketed under the name Lagevrio, on the European market.
"The EMA will assess the benefits and risks of Lagevrio within a short timeframe and may issue an opinion in a few weeks if the data submitted is strong and complete enough to show the efficacy, safety and quality of the drug,"
said the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said in a statement.
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Vaccination fraud in Belgium
Belgian justice is investigating a doctor suspected of having recorded 2,000 false anti-Covid vaccinations, the
“most serious”
fraud
to date in the management of the pandemic in Belgium, according to the Walloon Minister of Health.
The practitioner is suspected of having given these patients a health pass allowing them to escape the restrictions in force by being paid for injections that did not take place.
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Vaccination of children aged 5 to 11 in Israel
Israel began its anti-Covid vaccination campaign for children aged five to eleven on Monday evening, becoming one of the first countries, after the United States, to lower the age of access to the vaccine to curb the pandemic.
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Encouraging trials for innovative vaccine
The first trials (phase 1) in Germany of a vaccine project against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, called CoVac-1, have shown that it induces immunity linked to T cells, according to a study published on Tuesday which shows the subject of an article in the journal
Nature
.
T lymphocytes are a type of white blood cell responsible for the second part of the immune response, cellular immunity, which complements that by antibodies by directly attacking infected cells and not just the virus circulating in the body.
For the first clinical evaluation of this vaccine, 36 participants aged 18 to 80 received a single dose of the vaccine candidate.
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The
"specific T cell responses to SARS-COV2 were observed in all participants 28 days after vaccination, effects that persisted for at least three months."
These responses exceeded those induced by natural infection with the coronavirus responsible for Covid-19.
In addition, they have not been
“altered”
by any of the variants of current concern (Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta).
These results are however very preliminary and only larger trials will be able to confirm the real interest of this vaccine to protect against Covid-19.
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More than 5.15 million deaths worldwide
The coronavirus pandemic has killed at least 5,156,563 people around the world since the end of 2019, according to a report established by AFP from official sources on Tuesday at 11:00 GMT.
The United States is the most affected country, with 772,344 deaths, ahead of Brazil (612,782), India (466,147), Mexico (292,524) and Russia (266,579).
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, taking into account the excess mortality directly and indirectly linked to Covid-19, that the global toll of the pandemic could be two to three times higher than that calculated from official figures .