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Covid-19: more than 11% of people aged 80 and over have received a fourth dose of vaccine

2022-04-22T15:26:41.029Z


UPDATE ON THE SITUATION - New measures, new reports and highlights: Le Figaro takes stock of the latest developments in the Covid-19 pandemic.


A patient tested positive for 505 days, the WHO "

strongly recommends

" Pfizer's antiviral for patients at risk, Thailand lifts the last travel restrictions for vaccinated tourists...

Le Figaro

takes stock this Friday, April 22 on the latest information related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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More than 11% of people aged 80 and over have received a fourth dose of the vaccine

11.2% of people over the age of 80 received a second booster dose, indicated Public Health France in its weekly epidemiological update.

Among 60-79 year olds, 2.7% had received a second booster dose

,” the organization said in a statement.

In addition, according to data compiled for the week of April 11 to 17, compared to those of April 4 to 10, the number of new weekly hospitalizations of Covid patients fell by 20%, from 10,480 to 8,348. Finally, Public Health France confirms “

the omnipresence

(of the variant)

Omicron in France

”, which represents “

100% of interpretable sequences

” between April 4 and 10.

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In the United Kingdom, a patient tested positive for Covid for 505 days, a record

A patient who tested positive for Covid-19 remained so for 16 months until his death, the longest known case of infection, according to a study devoted to the evolution of the virus in immunocompromised patients.

The patient, whose identity has not been revealed, had first tested positive in mid-2020 and had breathing problems.

He remained positive in all tests (about 45) until his death 505 days later, Dr. Gaia Nebbia, co-author of the study, told AFP on Friday.

This is the longest known case of Covid infection, according to a press release from the European Congress of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, which is being held in Lisbon from April 23 to 26 and where the study will be presented.

The study, conducted by researchers from King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital London, looked between March 2020 and December 2021 at nine immunocompromised patients with persistent infection with the virus.

All were positive for at least eight weeks, two were positive for more than a year.

Of the nine patients, four died and four eventually recovered.

A last patient was still infected at the start of 2022, 412 days after being tested positive for the first time.

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WHO "

strongly recommends

" Pfizer's antiviral for patients at risk

The WHO on Friday strongly recommended the antiviral paxlovid from the American pharmaceutical group Pfizer for patients with less severe forms of Covid-19 and “

at higher risk of hospitalization

”.

But similar to what happened with the Covid vaccines, the World Health Organization “

is very concerned

” that less wealthy countries will once again struggle to access this drug. .

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let our guard down

”, warns the WHO

For WHO experts, the nirmatrelvir/ritonavir combination "

is the drug of choice

" for unvaccinated, elderly or immunocompromised patients, according to an article in the British Journal of Medicine.

For this same type of patients and symptoms, the WHO has also issued a “

weak recommendation

” for remdesivir from the American laboratory Gilead, which it had previously advised against.

Paxlovid should be preferred over Merck's molnupiravir or remdesivir as well as monoclonal antibodies, says the organization, which continues to campaign for vaccination.

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Thailand lifts latest travel restrictions for vaccinated tourists

Thailand is lifting the last restrictions for vaccinated travelers from May 1 to revive the vital tourism sector still badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

End of PCR tests, end of the obligation to isolate themselves in a hotel while awaiting the results, visitors will only have to attest to a complete vaccination schedule and medical insurance of a minimum amount of 10,000 dollars, announced authorities on Friday.

Tourists who are not vaccinated will have the choice: present a negative result to a PCR test carried out within three days of their arrival or stay five days in a hotel under quarantine.

The lifting of the latest restrictions "

will boost the economic recovery since we are a country that depends quite heavily on tourism

", Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha said.

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In Brazil, the Rio carnival resumes this Friday, after two years of Covid

After two years of painful abstinence due to the Covid, Rio finds its carnival on Friday evening with the first night of parades at the sambadrome, determined to restore all its brilliance to this sumptuous, unbridled, irreverent celebration.

From 10 p.m. (3 a.m. Saturday in France), 75,000 jubilant spectators will shake the stands overlooking the famous avenue on which the first six samba schools are to parade, one hour each, in an orgy of sequins, feathers and deafening drums, around gigantic tanks.

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Millions of Brazilians will also be glued to their televisions for the live broadcast of this enchantment until dawn, like every year.

Every year except last year.

The cancellation of the carnival due to the pandemic had been experienced as a national drama, as it is in the DNA of a people crazy about samba.

The 2022 edition is being held at an unusual date, two months behind schedule, the Omicron variant having given authorities and organizers cold sweats, who preferred to postpone the giant party.

Among the approximately 40,000 dancers and percussionists in shimmering costumes who will parade for two nights, most will certainly have lost a relative or a friend in the pandemic which has bled the country, killing at least 660,000 and causing an economic recession.

Source: lefigaro

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