Record contamination in France, a possible lull in the health crisis in the spring, and the British police are investigating Boris Johnson's parties...
Le Figaro
takes stock this Wednesday, January 26 on the latest information related to the Covid-19 pandemic. 19.
Record of contaminations, very high hospitalizations
The laboratories recorded 501,635 cases of contamination in 24 hours, a record level, but to smooth out the statistical jolts, it is necessary to consider the daily average over seven days, which is stable compared to the day before with 366,000 cases, according to the figures donated by Santé Publique France.
The test positivity rate stands at 31.7%.
Since yesterday, 30,189 patients with Covid-19 have been hospitalized.
The bar of 30,000 hospitalized patients had not been reached since April 27.
3842 people have been admitted in the last 24 hours.
364 people have also died in French hospitals in the past 24 hours.
The agreement of a single parent again sufficient to vaccinate a child
The agreement of a single parent becomes sufficient again to vaccinate 5-11 year olds against Covid-19, announced Tuesday the Ministry of Health, which seeks to take off vaccination in children
.
"Now, the authorization of only one of the two parents is enough
," explained an official from the Ministry of Health during a press conference on the progress of the vaccination campaign.
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Anti-Covid vaccination has been open since the end of December for 5-11 year olds in France, with a single type of vaccine: a less dosed version of that developed by Pfizer/BioNTech.
At first, the agreement of only one parent was sufficient.
Then, on January 6, the ministry indicated that the written agreement of both parents was becoming necessary, in accordance with a request from the Council of State.
Professor Delfraissy expects a lull in the spring
For the president of the French Scientific Council, Jean-François Delfraissy, the current phase of the epidemic, marked by the Omicron variant, should
“land”
around mid-March and allow a less tense spring on the health front.
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The wave of hospitalizations will be very heavy until mid-March
", assures Delfraissy
Beyond that, if he expects the arrival of a new variant in the fall, everything will depend on his "
type
": "
If it is transmissible and again severe, we would again be in a situation very boring
”.
Valneva starts its phase 3 clinical trial of its vaccine as a booster dose
The Franco-Austrian laboratory Valneva, which is developing a vaccine against Covid-19, has started examining it as a booster dose after a primary vaccination with a vaccine other than its own, he indicated in a statement on Tuesday.
The company explains that it has launched booster vaccinations in adult participants for its phase 3 trial, the last step before potential marketing.
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Omicron: level of risk still very high, warns WHO
The level of risk linked to the Omicron variant remains very high, estimated the World Health Organization (WHO) in its weekly bulletin, the number of Covid-19 contaminations having reached a new record last week.
“
Based on currently available data, the overall risk associated with Omicron remains very high
,” the organization warned.
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“
More than 21 million new cases have been recorded (in the past seven days), which is the highest number of weekly cases recorded since the start of the pandemic
,” she said.
“Partygate”: investigation into parties in Downing Street
British police announced on Tuesday that they were investigating several parties organized in Downing Street and within the senior administration during the confinements, at the origin of a serious crisis threatening Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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The economy begins 2022 in slow motion (IMF)
Slowdown in China and the United States, sharp slowdown in global growth.
Omicron, inflation and interest rate hikes are all clouds that darken the economic horizon at the start of 2022, the International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday.
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Omicron “
has led to new mobility restrictions in many countries and an increase in labor shortages
,” said Gita Gopinath, the institution's new number 2, at a press conference.
Netherlands: reopening of restaurants and cultural venues
The Dutch government, under pressure, announced on Tuesday the reopening under conditions from Wednesday of bars, restaurants and cultural venues in the Netherlands, where health restrictions against Covid-19 were among the strictest in Europe.
South Africa: prosecution in corruption cases
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday promised legal proceedings and sanctions after numerous financial misappropriations, within the framework of public contracts to fight against the Covid of the order of 830 million euros.
To date, investigators have referred 940 cases to the relevant authorities.
More than 5.6 million dead
The Covid-19 pandemic has killed at least 5,602,767 people worldwide since the end of December 2019, according to a report compiled by AFP from official sources on Tuesday at 11:00 GMT.
In absolute terms, the countries with the most deaths are the United States with 871,920, Brazil (623,843), India (490,462) and Russia (327,448).
The World Health Organization 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.