Prime Minister Jean Castex speaks this Thursday at 6 p.m. for a new progress report on the Covid-19 health crisis in France.
Visibility for economic players, new reinforced measures and vaccination strategy will be discussed by the government.
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"More visibility".
Here is the stated objective of Prime Minister Jean Castex who is holding a press conference on the Covid-19 epidemic this Thursday at 6 p.m., accompanied by the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran.
The government should decide on possible "heavier" measures, while France has more than 25,000 new contaminations in 24 hours.
The vaccination campaign, the source of many criticisms, will also be mentioned.
Internationally, China reported on Thursday 63 new Covid-19 contaminations in the past 24 hours, a record since July.
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Information to remember
The government makes a new progress report at 6 p.m.
More than 25,000 new cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in 24 hours
China tries to contain a source of contamination in a region bordering Beijing
The government must give "visibility"
Jean Castex, accompanied by the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, speaks Thursday at 6 p.m. for a press conference.
The government will give "more visibility" to sectors affected by the health crisis before perhaps taking "heavier" measures next week.
The Prime Minister is expected in particular on the reopening of bars and restaurants, which will undoubtedly not be able to resume their activity on January 21 as planned, but also on the introduction of the curfew advanced at 6 p.m. in new departments.
In ski resorts, the ski lifts will not reopen Thursday in any case as initially planned, said Wednesday evening the Secretary of State for Tourism Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, citing "a rather ascending level in terms of new cases (of Covid-19) and resuscitation ".
A vaccine strategy to defend
Accompanied by Alain Fischer, the "Mr Vaccines" of the government, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health intend to defend the French vaccination campaign, after many criticisms of its start to the drip.
The government has promised to accelerate, in particular by allowing without delay all health professionals over 50 or at risk to receive the famous injection in hospitals, and no longer only residents and staff of nursing homes.
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Olivier Véran, who will be heard on January 12 by the Senate Social Affairs Committee, also plans to open vaccination, before the end of January, in dedicated centers in town, to all people over 75 years old.
In a note, issued by the interministerial crisis unit and drafted by its services that Europe 1 was able to consult, he asks the regional health agencies to identify, with the prefects, at least three centers per department to develop vaccination in city and welcome priority audiences there.
"We are opening 100 centers for the city," then "we will open 300 next week and 500 the following week," also said government spokesman Gabriel Attal.
About 12,500 vaccinations were carried out this Wednesday, against 5,000 late Tuesday afternoon, according to the office of the Minister of Health.
Several renowned doctors, notably Michel Cymes or Axel Kahn, were vaccinated against Covid-19 on Wednesday in Aulnay-sous-Bois, in the Paris region, to fight against mistrust around injection.
Discover the report from Europe 1 here.
More than 25,000 new contaminations in 24 hours
According to the latest report from Public Health France, France had 66,565 dead on Wednesday since the start of the epidemic, including 46,263 in hospitals and 20,302 in nursing homes and other medico-social establishments.
So 283 hospital deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours.
More than 25,000 new cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in 24 hours (25,379), while in hospitals, the number of patients currently present due to Covid-19 has been declining in the last 24 hours with 24,741 people hospitalized Wednesday, 163 less compared to Tuesday.
1,433 new admissions were registered in 24 hours.
The number of patients in intensive care or intensive care is also down slightly, with 2,616 people in these services, nine patients less than Tuesday, despite 234 new admissions.
Moderna laboratory vaccine authorized in Europe
EU clears Moderna vaccine The European Commission on Wednesday cleared the coronavirus vaccine from the US laboratory Moderna, the second to be approved in the EU after Pfizer / BioNTech.
The vaccine had shortly before received the green light from the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
Authorized since December in the United States and Canada, the Moderna vaccine has the advantage of being able to be stored at -20 ° C, and not -70 ° C like that of Pfizer / BioNTech.
"With the Moderna vaccine, the second now authorized in the EU, we will have 160 million additional doses", after the 300 million doses already ordered from Pfizer-BioNTech, welcomed the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.
More than a million inhabitants of the EU have received a dose of vaccine against the Covid-19, the Danes, the Germans and the Italians leading the race, according to a report established Wednesday by AFP.
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One in about 100,000 people has experienced a serious allergic reaction after receiving a dose of Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine, US health officials said on Wednesday, stressing that the benefits of the vaccination far outweigh the potential risks.
England, Lebanon reconfine, restrictions in South America
British MPs officially adopted on Wednesday the third confinement demanded by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, according to whom
England
had no other choice in the face of the surge in contamination by the new coronavirus attributed to a more contagious variant.
The 56 million inhabitants can no longer leave their homes for essential reasons.
Schools have closed and Prime Minister Boris Johnson could not guarantee on Wednesday that they would reopen after the February recess.
Lebanon
is also caulked until the end of January, after having identified 4,166 new Covid-19 contaminations on Wednesday, a daily record.
Ireland
, faced with a "tsunami" of contamination with the new coronavirus, decided on Wednesday to close its schools at least until the end of the month, thus further tightening the confinement reinstated after Christmas.
In Canada, Quebec imposes a night curfew on its inhabitants.
This measure, which lasts for four weeks until February 8, will apply from Saturday and will be in effect between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m.
The government, however, announced the lifting of the ban on flights from the United Kingdom, with the entry into force of new restrictions on Thursday for travelers arriving in Canada.
In South America,
Peru
extended the suspension of flights from Europe until January 21 to avoid the entry of passengers who may be infected with the new strain of coronavirus discovered in the United Kingdom, said Wednesday. the government.
Uruguay is
extending the entry ban into the country until January 30, a measure aimed at containing the increase in Covid-19 cases.
New record outbreak in China
China on Thursday reported 63 new Covid-19 contaminations in the past 24 hours, a record since July, as authorities strove to contain an outbreak of coronavirus that appeared in the region bordering Beijing.
The country, where the new coronavirus first emerged a year ago, has largely eradicated the epidemic since the spring thanks to strict movement controls, widespread mask wear, containment measures and tracing applications for cellphone.
But China has recorded rising balance sheets in recent days, even if they remain very far from the statements announced abroad.
The majority of new cases reported Thursday were in Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing (51 contaminations to which are added 69 asymptomatic cases).
All schools have been closed in the town, whose vast territory has 11 million inhabitants.