Agnès Pannier-Runacher tested positive for Covid-19
The Deputy Minister for Industry, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, announced that she tested positive for the Covid-19 virus on Sunday, in a message posted on her Twitter account.
“
Learning today that I was a contact case, I immediately performed a test which turned out to be positive for Covid-19.
I isolate myself from this day and continue to carry out my ministerial functions from a distance,
”the Minister wrote on Twitter.
According to her cabinet, "
the minister has no symptoms and is doing well
".
"
She will ensure her next appointments remotely by phone and videoconference,
" says the same source.
In France, more than 50,000 cases per day
Resuscitation services, where the number of patients with Covid-19 started to rise again at the end of November, are approaching 3,000 patients, while the daily average of contaminations settles above 50,000, according to figures published on Sunday by Public health France.
These critical care services, where the most serious cases are treated, had 2,936 patients on Sunday, against 2,933 the day before.
There were 91 admissions in 24 hours.
In total, 15,528 patients are hospitalized, against 15,370 the day before.
The trend has been a clear increase over the past month, a period over which this figure has almost doubled (+ 97%).
Public Health France reports 48,473 new cases in 24 hours, the daily average over the last seven days exceeding 52,000 daily cases.
In Germany, urgent measures needed, experts say
The group of experts advising the German government sounded the alarm on Sunday against the spread of the Omicron variant and called for further reductions in contact with the population "
as soon as possible
".
"
If the spread of the Omicron variant in Germany were to continue like this, a significant portion of the population would simultaneously fall ill and / or be quarantined,
" the experts write in their report.
There would therefore be a high risk of disruption in the functioning of “
critical infrastructure
” (hospitals, security, emergency services, telecommunications, electricity and water supply).
Demonstration against the health certificate in Brussels
A march against the health certificate gathered several thousand people on Sunday in Brussels, where the police made some arrests during clashes after the dispersal of the procession, noted an AFP journalist.
The protesters - 3,500 according to the police, 50,000 according to the organizers - marched between the Gare du Nord and the European district, as during the two previous demonstrations, on November 21 and December 5, to denounce the vaccination and the use of the certificate sanitary facilities to access restaurants and cultural events.
First four cases of Omicron in Peru
Peru, the country with the highest mortality from Covid-19 in the world, announced the first four cases of the Omicron variant on its territory on Sunday, against the backdrop of the resurgence of the pandemic.
“
Unfortunately, we already have four confirmed cases of Omicron in Peru,
” Health Minister Hernando Cevallos told reporters.
Among these people, there is at least one woman and a nine-year-old boy.
The woman, whose nationality was not specified, had arrived from South Africa, authorities said.
Omicron 'goes wild' across the world, warns Dr Fauci
Prominent American scientist Anthony Fauci, White House adviser on the health crisis, warned on Sunday that the Omicron variant of Covid-19 was
"
rampant
"
across the world, worrying about the number of Americans still unvaccinated .
"This virus is extraordinary,"
Anthony Fauci said on CNN, referring to its speed of spread.
"He's going to get the upper hand"
, and
"we're going to have tough weeks or months as we get closer to winter
.
"
"It's spreading really quickly, literally around the world and without a doubt in our own country,"
he added on ABC, worrying that nearly 50 million eligible Americans remained unvaccinated. .
Overdose for six children in a vaccine park in Le Mans
Six children received on Saturday "
by mistake
" too strong a dose of Pfizer vaccine in a vaccination center in Le Mans, where Prime Minister Jean Castex had gone the same day, we learned from the prefecture of the Sarthe and the ARS.
Normally, the dose administered for this age group corresponds to 10 micrograms of pediatric Pfizer and is increased to 30 micrograms of Pfizer Comirnaty from the age of 12, according to the same source. “
In the first vaccines administered, six children had mistakenly received a 20 microgram dose of Pfizer Comirnaty.
Noting this anomaly, in addition to the measures taken for the doses of the following vaccines, the referring physician of the vaccination center immediately contacted the families concerned to inform them and set up with them the necessary follow-up measures
”, the press release continued.
According to the Regional Health Agency, the possible post-vaccination effects for these six children may be mainly fever and body aches.
More than 5.34 million dead
The pandemic has killed at least 5.34 million people worldwide since the WHO office in China reported the onset of the disease at the end of December 2019, according to a report compiled by AFP from official sources Sunday at 11:00 GMT.
The United States is the most bereaved country with 806,439 deaths, ahead of Brazil (617,803 deaths), India (477,422) and Mexico (297,835).
The WHO estimates, taking into account the excess mortality directly and indirectly linked to Covid-19, that the results of the pandemic could be two to three times higher than that officially recorded.
