In France, while 65,415 people have died since the start of the epidemic, the government must face criticism of the slowness of the vaccination campaign, and has promised a rise.
In England, faced with the spread of the new more contagious variant, Boris Johnson announced the return of total containment.
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Will the government manage to put an end to the controversy surrounding the coronavirus vaccination campaign?
Under fire from critics because of the very slow start of its campaign, the executive ensures that a ramp-up is planned, and in particular accelerates the vaccination of health professionals over 50 years old.
For more transparency, and faced with the mistrust of part of the population, a citizens' committee made up of 35 French people drawn by lot will be set up.
In England, if the vaccination campaign is already well underway, the country must again refine itself, faced with the spread of the new variant.
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In France, resuscitations are down very slightly
Government tries to end criticism of slow vaccinations
In England, Boris Johnson announced the return of total containment
65,415 dead in France, resuscitations down very slightly
According to the latest report published Monday by the health authorities, 378 new deaths have been identified, for a total of 65,415 deaths in France since the start of the epidemic.
Resuscitations are down very slightly, with eight fewer patients compared to the day before.
A total of 2,666 patients are currently in intensive care.
On the other hand, hospitalizations are again slightly up (+182), for a total of 24,995 people currently hospitalized.
4,022 new cases were registered.
During the holidays, this daily figure has varied enormously since mid-December, fluctuating between some 3,000 and more than 21,000.
But still far, on average, from the government goal of going down to 5,000 cases per day.
The positivity rate, which measures the percentage of people positive for Covid-19 out of all those tested, is stable compared to Sunday, at 5.2%, after several days of increase.
Vaccination: the government promises a rapid rise
Under fire from critics because of a very slow start to its vaccination campaign, the government on Monday promised a rapid rise, with injections for all caregivers at risk and no longer only in nursing homes.
By Tuesday evening and Wednesday "," there will be a hundred hospitals which will offer vaccination to their caregivers as well as to city carers, "the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran assured Monday afternoon." I can tell you that today we will have carried out several thousand vaccinations throughout the country, it will increase in power and it will increase even more from Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, "added the Minister.
Olivier Véran also reaffirmed the objective of achieving vaccination before the end of January about one million people among residents of nursing homes and caregivers of these establishments who present increased risks because of their age or their health.
But the executive also promised to work extra hard for all other health professionals over the age of 50 or who are at risk of developing a severe form.
Another government promise, the installation of the first vaccination centers "in town" by the beginning of February, for the elderly not residing in nursing homes.
He also promised transparency, via a daily information system, "Vaccin Covid", launched Tuesday, and the constitution of a group of 35 citizens drawn by lot who can challenge the authorities.
A "gadget", castigates the opposition.
Return of total containment in England
Faced with the alarming spread of the new, more contagious variant, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Monday evening the re-containment of England until mid-February.
In English hospitals, the number of patients with the virus, nearly 27,000 has "increased by almost a third" in one week and is 40% above the highest of the peak of the first wave, he said. highlighted.
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As during the first confinement in the spring and unlike the second in November, schools will be closed and will switch to distance education from Tuesday.
The confinement is to come into effect from Wednesday at 12:01 am.
If the conditions are right, the containment will be lifted in mid-February, by which time, Boris Johnson hopes, all over 70s will be vaccinated thanks to the acceleration of the campaign launched on December 8 and now carried out with two vaccines , Pfizer / BioNTech and AstraZeneca / Oxford.
On Monday morning, Brian Pinker, 82, became the first patient to receive the British vaccine, injected by the head nurse at Churchill Hospital at Oxford University.
For its part, Scotland had already announced total containment from Monday evening for the entire month of January, including the closure of schools.
The provinces of Northern Ireland and Wales introduced their third lockdown just after Christmas.
Denmark spaces injection of two doses of vaccine
On Monday, Denmark announced that the two doses of the vaccine would be up to six weeks apart, allowing more people to receive a first injection.
"Until now, we have said that there should be three to four weeks between each injection but one can easily wait up to six weeks", said the head of the National Health Agency, Søren Brostrøm. , interviewed by public television TV2.
These new recommendations concern both the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine, which is currently the only one administered in the Scandinavian country, and that developed by Moderna, currently being approved by the European Union.
They come after the announcement by the United Kingdom of its decision to extend the interval between the two doses of vaccines - Pfizer / BioNTech and AstraZeneca in the British case to 12 weeks.
Still no European decision on the Moderna vaccine
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has announced that it will ultimately not vote on the authorization of the Moderna vaccine on Monday evening, and its discussions will resume later in the week.
"The EMA's discussions on the Moderna vaccine against Covid-19 will not be finished tonight. They will continue on Wednesday," the Amsterdam-based European regulator said in a statement.
The EMA authorized the Pfizer / BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on December 21, for which the European Commission immediately gave the green light and which remains to this day the only vaccine authorized in Europe.
The Moderna vaccine, authorized since December 19 by the United States Medicines Agency (FDA), is taken in two doses, a few weeks apart, like the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine.
But Moderna's formula can be stored at -20 ° C, not -70 ° C like the Pfizer remedy.
Guest of Europe 1 Monday, Christelle Ratignier-Carbonneil, new director general of ANSM, assured that the vaccine from the American laboratory Moderna would be authorized "very imminently", namely "in the hours or days to come" .
Mexico validates AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine against Covid-19
Mexico granted emergency authorization for the Covid-19 vaccine developed by the British laboratory AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford on Monday, the government announced.
The Federal Commission for the Protection of Health Risks "has authorized AstraZeneca's vaccine for emergency use against the Sars-CoV-2 virus," wrote on Twitter Hugo Lopez-Gatell, responsible for the strategy against epidemic in the Mexican government.
He said the vaccine could be available from March.
"It depends on whether the private entities working there materialize the production capacity," he explained later at a press conference.
More than 1.8 million deaths worldwide
The pandemic has killed at least 1,843,631 people worldwide since the WHO office in China reported the onset of the disease at the end of December 2019, according to a report established by AFP from official sources Monday at 11:00 GMT.
The United States is the most affected country in terms of both deaths and cases, with 351,590 deaths for 20,639,854 cases, according to the Johns Hopkins University count.
After the United States, the countries most affected are Brazil with 196,018 dead and 7,733,746 cases, India with 149,649 dead (10,340,469 cases), Mexico with 127,213 dead (1,448,755 cases), and the 'Italy with 75,332 dead (2,155,446 cases).