The EU recommends a second booster dose for all those over 60, Macao begins a first one-week confinement, Delfraissy ensures that the healthcare system "
will hold
" in France...
Le Figaro
takes stock this Monday July 11 on the latest information related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
EU recommends second booster for everyone over 60
The European Union on Monday recommended a second booster vaccine against Covid-19 to all over 60 years old, instead of 80 years old so far, in the face of a vast summer “
wave
” which is looming in Europe.
The recommendation also applies to all vulnerable people, say the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in a joint press release.
“
I call on member states to immediately offer second boosters to all over 60s and vulnerable people, and I call on all eligible people to come forward for vaccination
,” said the European Commissioner for Health. Health, Stella Kyriakides.
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In April, the two EU health agencies had already recommended this second booster - in most cases a fourth dose - for the over-80s, but signaled that an extension to the over-60s could follow.
Europe is facing "
an increase in Covid cases but also an upward trend in the number of hospitalizations or emergency admissions in several countries, mainly due to the BA.5 sub-variant of Omicron
" , more contagious, underlined the director of the ECDC, Andrea Ammon.
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The care system "
will hold
", assures Delfraissy
The healthcare system “
will hold
up” this summer against the BA.5 variant, assured Monday the president of the Scientific Council Jean-François Delfraissy, who predicts the peak of the seventh wave for “
next week
” in Ile-de-France .
“
It feels like the acceleration rate is dropping.
We are going to have an impact on the healthcare system which will be rather at the end of July but which could be controlled
, ”said Jean-François Delfraissy at the microphone of France Inter.
He recalled that the Omicron sub-variant, BA.5, is "
very transmissible
" but "
is not more severe
".
According to him, “
we are currently at around 1100 or 1200 classic hospitalizations per day.
In March, we reached 1800 and in January around 2800, 3000 so we will reach 1800, maybe even exceed them a little
”.
“
At equal level, we have a hospital system which is tired (…), we will have a lot of population movements on the coast, Languedoc, the South-West coast, a virus which will continue to circulate and a offer of care which will be weak because there will be the holidays of caregivers, and contaminated caregivers
, ”he continued.
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Tour de France: negative Covid test for all riders
The Tour de France riders have passed a Covid detection test which gave a negative result for the whole peloton, the International Cycling Union (UCI) announced on Monday.
The tests were carried out on Sunday evening before the riders observed a rest day in Haute-Savoie.
Three runners have had to leave the race since the start in Denmark, after having tested positive for covid.
The French Geoffrey Bouchard (AG2R Citroën) and the Norwegian Vegard Stake Laengen (UAE), a teammate of the Slovenian yellow jersey Tadej Pogacar, left Saturday morning before the start of the 8th stage.
The Frenchman Guillaume Martin (Cofidis) imitated them the next morning.
“
All the riders participating in the Tour de France were tested on the evening of July 10.
All the tests were negative
,” the UCI made official on Monday morning.
Macau begins first week-long lockdown
Macao on Monday began its first confinement since the start of the pandemic, in order to stem its worst wave of coronavirus, causing the stock prices of casino operators in the Chinese city to plunge.
The government announced a week of confinement from Monday after registering more than 1,500 infections in the last three weeks despite several mandatory massive screening campaigns in this city of 650,000 inhabitants.
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