Rise in cases in French schools, discontent is increasing in Shanghai, increased frequency of cases of reinfections since Omicron...
Le Figaro
takes stock this Friday, April 1 on the latest information related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Increased frequency of cases of reinfections since Omicron
After a short stabilization in early January, the proportion of possible cases of reinfection reported to all Covid cases has been on the rise again since the end of January and now represents 5.4% of all confirmed cases, according to the latest available data. from the French Public Health Agency.
Possible cases of reinfection are defined as all persons who presented at least two positive tests recorded in the database carried out 60 days apart or more.
The time between the two episodes of infection was 242 days on average, the health agency said on Friday during its weekly press briefing.
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In all, 685,858 possible cases of reinfection were identified between March 2, 2021 and March 20, 2022, including 95.2% since December 6, 2021, which marks the start of the distribution of the Omicron variant in France.
“It seems likely that the attenuation of the post-infectious or post-vaccination immune response within the French population plays a role in this marked increase in the frequency of possible cases of reinfection, in particular in people who have not had booster dose of the vaccine”
, commented Public Health France.
"It is also very likely that the very strong distribution in France of the Omicron variant, characterized by increased transmissibility and significant immune escape, amplifies this phenomenon"
, she added.
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Rise in cases among students and staff, stable closed classes
Contaminations at school have continued to increase for a week.
In total, 88,722 cases of Covid have been confirmed among students cumulatively over the last seven days, against 81,424 last week, according to this data stopped Thursday at midday.
Among the staff, the Ministry of National Education has counted 11,637 cases over the last seven days, against 10,201 the previous week.
Class closures are stable.
The ministry lists 2,897 classes closed out of 527,215 classes in total, or 0.55%.
The previous week, there were 3,080 closed classes.
The academies most affected by class closures are those of Nancy-Metz, Aix-Marseille, Montpellier and Reunion.
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Discontent rises in Shanghai over confinement
Shanghainese expressed their frustration on Friday with access to food and the growing confinement of the Chinese metropolis, which is facing its worst epidemic outbreak since the start of the pandemic.
To avoid a general confinement of Shanghai, the authorities had decided to alternately put under glass two parts of the city to test its 25 million inhabitants there.
The east of the metropolis (Pudong) had been completely confined since Monday for four days.
From this Friday, it was the turn of the west (Puxi) for the same duration.
However, large areas of Pudong, where the city's main international airport is located and the iconic skyscrapers of its business district, have remained confined due to the discovery of positive cases.
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The town hall published a plan for exiting confinement on Thursday evening, which notably provides for extensions of confinement in the event of the discovery of positive cases.
The announcement at the start of the week of the confinements had caused an influx of consumers into supermarkets.
Another concern now: even applications for home delivery of fresh produce are struggling to keep up with demand, which has obviously exploded with the millions of confined Shanghainese.
The Ministry of Health announced more than 7,200 new positive cases nationwide on Friday.
While these figures are low compared to many other countries, they are high for China where authorities are applying a zero Covid strategy, which aims to prevent the appearance of new cases.
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The Bundesliga announces losses of more than a billion over two years due to the Covid
German clubs in the first and second divisions (Bundesliga 1 and 2) have lost a total of more than one billion euros since the start of the Covid pandemic, the League (DFL) announced on Friday when presenting its annual report.
For the 2020-2021 season, “
the overall revenue of the two championships fell by more than 750 million euros compared to the last season before the pandemic (2018/19): from 4.8 to 4.05 billion euros
,” said DFL President Donata Hopfen in her introduction.
“The drop in turnover at the end of the first two seasons affected by Covid-19, 2019/20 and 2020/21 exceeds one billion euros”
, she specified.
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