While hospitalizations and resuscitations are on the rise, the government has to face the controversy around the slowness of the vaccination campaign, but also around the start of the school year, there are many concerns about this health context.
In total, 65,037 people have died in France since the start of the epidemic.
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In France, the authorities continue to watch for a possible rebound in the coronavirus epidemic after the holidays.
While hospitalizations and resuscitations are on the rise again, the government must also face the controversy over the slowness of the vaccination campaign, and fears generated by the start of the school year.
In the rest of Europe, the United Kingdom, which has already vaccinated more than a million people, begins Monday to inject the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford, less expensive and easier to store than Pfizer-BioNTech.
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The main information to remember:
In France, hospitalizations and resuscitations are on the rise
The government wants to speed up the vaccination campaign
The start of the school year is awaited with apprehension by some parents and unions
Slight increase in hospitalizations and resuscitations
More than 12,000 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in 24 hours in France where the number of hospitalized patients has increased slightly and the number of deaths has exceeded 65,000, according to figures released Sunday by Public Health France.
The number of recorded cases was 12,489 in 24 hours, against 3,466 on Saturday.
With 116 new deaths in hospital in 24 hours, Covid-19 has now caused the death of 65,037 people in France since the start of the epidemic.
The number of patients hospitalized for Covid-19 is 24,780, or 322 more than on Saturday, with 657 new admissions during the day.
The number of patients in intensive care or intensive care is also up slightly, with 2,665, 33 more than on Saturday, with 101 new admissions.
The government wants to speed up on vaccinations
While the controversy swells around the slowness of the vaccination campaign, the executive wants to accelerate.
In
Le Parisien Sunday
, government spokesman Gabriel Attal announced an acceleration in the arrival of doses each week and a strengthening of the means to transfer them to nursing homes.
From Monday, caregivers aged 50 and over can all start to be vaccinated, Olivier Véran having brought their turn forward by several weeks.
Some did not even wait for this date: at the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris, and at the Nancy CHRU, the first injections were given this weekend.
Back to school worries parents and unions
Many parents but also several unions are worried about the risk of a rebound in the coronavirus epidemic favored by the return of thousands of students in schools from Monday.
Sunday, on BFM-TV, the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer assured that the children would go to school "as planned", while opening the door to adjustments on a case-by-case basis.
Guest of Europe 1, Jean-Rémi Girard, president of the National Union of High Schools and Colleges (SNALC), regrets the lack of anticipation of the executive.
A reopening of restaurants on January 20?
"Unlikely"
In terms of restaurants, the future looks even darker.
Invited Sunday from Europe 1, the Minister for small and medium-sized enterprises Alain Griset judged that in view of the epidemic situation, it seemed "unlikely" that these establishments could reopen their doors on January 20.
"We are waiting to see how the holiday weekends will impact or not the pandemic, and it is then, in the light of these elements, around January 10, that we can make a final decision", a- he added.
UK starts injecting vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford
The United Kingdom becomes the first country on Monday to administer the vaccine from the British laboratory AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford against Covid-19 to its population, while considering a new severe turn of the screw to curb the worsening of the pandemic.
AstraZeneca-Oxford's vaccine is less expensive, easier to store and therefore more suitable for a large-scale immunization campaign than those of its competitors Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, already approved and distributed in several countries, notably in the States. -United.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has already been injected to more than one million people in the United Kingdom since the launch of the vaccination campaign in early December
Vaccination campaigns accelerate in several countries
The vaccination campaign in the United States is gaining momentum and could reach one million injections per day, officials have assured in the face of criticism of its initial delay in a country which has just passed the 350,000 death mark.
"In the last 72 hours, 1.5 million first injections have been recorded, which is 500,000 per day," said the chief medical officer of the United States, Jerome Adams.
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In Israel, two million people will have received the double injection of the vaccine by the end of January, said the authorities of the country, where a third lockdown is in force.
The national vaccination campaign was launched on December 19 at a forced pace by Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Prime Minister had received his first injection of the vaccine from the American-German duo Pfizer-BioNtech live on television.
For its part, India has authorized the use, "for limited use in emergency situations", of two vaccines, one developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford and the other by the company Indian pharmaceutical Bharat Biotech, the local drug regulatory authority has announced.
More than 1.83 million dead
The pandemic has killed at least 1,835,824 people worldwide for more than 84.5 million people infected, according to a report established by AFP on Sunday in the middle of the day according to official figures.
The United States is the most affected country in terms of both deaths and cases, with 350,214 deaths for more than 20.4 million cases.
Brazil (195,725 dead) and India (149,435 dead) follow.
These figures do not take into account ex post revisions made by statistical agencies, such as in Russia, Spain and the United Kingdom.