Record contamination in France and Brazil, the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation invests 300 million dollars and the WHO warns that the pandemic is "far from over"...
Le Figaro
takes stock this Wednesday, January 19 on the latest information related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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464,769 cases in France, an absolute record
The daily number of new cases of Covid-19 contamination has exceeded 300,000 on average over the past seven days, according to figures published by Public Health France.
Yesterday, it rose to 464,769, bringing the average for the week to 309,433 daily cases against 281,965 the previous Tuesday.
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Good news and some uncertainties
The critical care services, which receive the most serious cases, had 3,894 Covid patients on Tuesday (including 366 new admissions), against 3,913 the day before and 3,969 the previous Tuesday.
The total number of hospitalized patients reached 26,593, of which 3,503 were admitted in 24 hours.
The previous Tuesday, 23,371 people were hospitalized.
The Parisian demonstration of teachers banned on Thursday
The Parisian demonstration of several teacher unions scheduled for Thursday to demand "
strong responses
" in the face of the "
chaos
" caused by the health crisis, was banned by the Paris police headquarters, the request having been made "out of time", learned AFP from concordant sources.
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The unions FSU, CGT Educ'action, FO and SUD Education, as well as the FCPE, the first organization of parents of pupils, and the high school student movements FIDL, MNL and La Voix lycéenne called for "
continuing the mobilization
" after the very followed last Thursday, by engaging "
in a new day of action Thursday, including by the strike
".
Vaccination pass: the Constitutional Council will decide on Friday
The Constitutional Council, seized by opposition deputies and senators, will make its decision on Friday January 21 on the bill transforming the health pass into a vaccination pass, he announced.
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The Elders of the rue de Montpensier were seized by 60 deputies from all sides led by the group La France insoumise of the Palais Bourbon, and by about sixty socialist senators.
The scope of the two referrals is however different, the first being opposed to the vaccination pass, the second considering that a “
certain number of safeguards
” must be brought to it to “
supervise it scrupulously
”. “
We are awaiting the decision of the Council Constitutional.
In the process, the health pass may come into force, probably by the end of the week
, “said Gabriel Attal, the government spokesman yesterday morning.
Germany: more than 100,000 Covid-19 contaminations in 24 hours
Germany has recorded 112,323 additional cases and 239 deaths over the past day, the Robert Koch health watch institute said early Wednesday.
The one-week incidence rate also reached 584.4 infections per 100,000 people, according to the institute.
This record number of cases comes as the Omicron variant has become the majority in Germany, where it is responsible for more than 70% of new infections.
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Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to introduce compulsory vaccination against Covid-19 in Germany - where 60 million out of 83 million inhabitants are fully vaccinated - but the adoption of the measure has been delayed, in a climate overheated by restrictions existing.
The pandemic, “far from over” according to the WHO
The Covid-19 pandemic “is far from over,” the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday, warning against the idea that the Omicron variant is benign.
Brazil: absolute record of daily contaminations
Brazil recorded a new record for Covid-19 contamination in 24 hours, with 137,103 cases, according to the latest report provided on Tuesday by the Ministry of Health.
This country of 213 million inhabitants deplores a total of some 23.2 million cases and 621,517 deaths.
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No complications with mRNA vaccines
Studies of pregnant women have found that the two most widely used Covid vaccines, made with messenger RNA technology (Pfizer, Moderna), pose no risk to mothers or babies, the agency said on Tuesday. European Medicines (EMA).
In France, another study pointed out that these vaccines did not increase the risk of serious cardiovascular problems (infarction, stroke or pulmonary embolism) in people under 75 years old.
$300 million to fight the pandemic
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the British charitable foundation Wellcome announced on Tuesday that they would each invest an additional $150 million in the fight against Covid and the prevention of future pandemics.
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These funds will go to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), which notably co-pilots the mechanism for distributing vaccines to the most deprived countries Covax.
More than 5.5 million dead
The Covid-19 pandemic has killed at least 5,543,637 people worldwide since the end of December 2019, according to a report established by AFP from official sources, Tuesday at midday.
In absolute terms, the countries with the most deaths are the United States (853,720), Brazil (621,517), India (486,761) and Russia (322,678).
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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 than that officially recorded.
