Continued rise in cases in Shanghai, the European regulator launching the review of the Spanish HIPRA vaccine, vaccines adapted to Omicron not available before "fall" within the EU ...
Le Figaro
takes stock this Tuesday 29 March on the latest information related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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European regulator launches review of Spanish HIPRA vaccine
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced on Tuesday the launch of the review procedure for the vaccine against Covid-19 from the Spanish multinational HIPRA.
"Preliminary results suggest that the immune response to the Spanish HIPRA vaccine could be effective against SARS-CoV-2, including variants that are of concern such as Omicron
," the EMA said in a statement.
The Agency, whose headquarters are in Amsterdam, did not specify how long the study procedure for this first Spanish vaccine, called PHH-1V, would take.
PHH-1V is based on the process of recombinant proteins, a formula also used by the American company Novavax and the partnership between the French laboratory Sanofi and the British GSK.
It is a vaccine
“which prepares the body to defend itself”
against Covid-19, writes the EMA.
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Vaccines suitable for Omicron not available before 'autumn' in EU
German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach estimated on Tuesday that vaccines adapted to the Omicron variant would not be available in the EU
“until the autumn”.
Arriving at a meeting with his counterparts in Brussels, he said that
“to his knowledge”
the development of these vaccines was
“delayed”.
"So I don't expect the new vaccines suitable (for Covid-19 variants) to be available until the fall
," he said, adding that
"September could be a target month."
“That is why it is very important that we do not wait for the arrival of new suitable vaccines to proceed with the fourth vaccination
,” he said.
Germany is currently recommending a new booster dose for people over 70, particularly vulnerable people and healthcare workers.
The German minister wants a recommendation from the European regulator for a
“fourth dose of vaccine in people over 60”.
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Shanghai cases continue to rise despite lockdown
The metropolis of 25 million inhabitants has in recent days become the Chinese epicenter of a new wave of contamination, linked to the Omicron variant, which began to accelerate in early March and is putting the Chinese zero Covid strategy to the test. .
The Health Ministry reported 4,477 new positive cases in Shanghai on Tuesday, up from 3,500 the day before.
For the whole country, the daily toll is approaching 7,000 cases, a new level.
Very low figures on a global scale but high for China, where the number of new daily contaminations has rarely exceeded one hundred since the spring of 2020.
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The authorities are tracking with all their might to try to eradicate the epidemic.
No less than 8.26 million Shanghainese were tested on Monday alone, according to the town hall.
Since Monday, the eastern half of Shanghai has been locked down for four days.
On April 1, it will be the turn of the western part of the city.
The sudden announcement of this measure on Sunday evening caused an influx of residents into supermarkets in the western half still open until Thursday.
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Downing Street parties during lockdowns: British police impose 20 fines
London police announced on Tuesday that they would impose 20 fines for breaching anti-Covid rules following their investigation into parties organized in British power circles in full confinement, a scandal which had weakened Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
“
We will start today to return 20 notices of fines for breaches of the Covid-19 regulations”
, said Scotland Yard in a press release on this investigation relating to a dozen gatherings in 2020 and 2021, without specifying who were. the people concerned.
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