A defense council organized on Wednesday at the Elysee Palace should allow the executive to work on the measures to be taken in the face of the rebound of the coronavirus epidemic in France.
Despite the vaccine, herd immunity should not be achieved until the end of 2021, according to the WHO.
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In a deteriorated health situation, reinforced restrictions?
A defense council is due to take place this Wednesday on the political follow-up to be given to the worsening of the coronavirus epidemic in France.
This Tuesday, the latest coronavirus report shows 68,802 dead, or 362 more in 24 hours.
Hospital data remains at a high level and, in this context, the hypothesis of a third confinement is taking a little more force every day.
Internationally, the WHO warned Tuesday that herd immunity would not be achieved before the end of 2021, despite the vaccine.
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The main information to remember:
A defense council on Wednesday at the Elysee, new restrictions in sight
68,802 dead in France, 19,753 new cases in 24 hours
Vaccination accelerates, Nancy being the first to start the expanded campaign
WHO warns collective immunity will not be reached globally before the end of 2021
A defense council, towards stricter measures
A defense council is due to take place Wednesday at the Elysee Palace around Emmanuel Macron.
New restrictions could be decided there to curb the spread of the epidemic and in particular the English and South African variants.
The prospect of a national reconfinement, if it is not the most probable, is not excluded.
These new measures are expected to be announced at the government press conference on Thursday evening.
An inevitable re-containment according to several doctors ...
This Tuesday, the latest coronavirus report shows 68,802 dead, or 362 more in 24 hours.
The number of new cases detected in 24 hours stands at 19,753.
The test positivity rate is now 6.5%, while there are 8,805 new hospitalizations over the last seven days, including 1,350 in intensive care.
After two days of increase, hospital data remain high: there are 24,737 hospitalized patients, or 109 less over 24 hours, and 2,688 serious cases in intensive care, or 12 more since the last count.
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In this context, the prospect of a third confinement is more and more openly considered.
A column by doctors from the PendemIA Foundation published in
Le Monde
mentions the date of mid-January, when the effects of the end of year holidays, and of the New Year in particular, will be measured.
On Europe 1, Vincent Maréchal, professor of virology at Sorbonne-University also warned that a re-containment was becoming more and more inevitable.
... but Delfraissy is careful
However, Jean-François Delfraissy, president of the Scientific Council and guest of TF1, Tuesday, was a little more cautious on this question of a very short-term reconfinement: "I will not answer this evening (on the need for 'a reconfinement). I have an opinion which is that we are not in the extreme urgency, "he tempered.
"As I explained, the figures are quite paradoxical. Let us perhaps leave a few days to finish looking at the consequences of December 31, what becomes of the first figures of this English mutant, let us continue the vaccination intensively. balance and the speed race, we will be able to catch up. "
The vaccination campaign is accelerating, as in Nancy
The city of Nancy began on Tuesday morning to vaccinate people over 75 years of age outside nursing homes against Covid-19, almost a week before the start of the national campaign, according to the town hall, which however encourages patients interested in wait until Wednesday.
A flaw in the Doctolib appointment system has allowed some patients to make one on Tuesday to be vaccinated, while vaccination is normally reserved for healthcare staff.
After a sluggish start, the vaccination campaign is gradually picking up its speed.
According to figures from the Ministry of Health unveiled Monday, 189,834 people have now received a first injection in the country, including more than 45,000 in 24 hours.
The stated target is 400,000 people vaccinated by the end of the week.
In addition, private medical appointment booking platforms (Doctolib, Maiia, Keldoc) have been designated as official partners of the State for online appointment booking and the management of vaccination centers.
Because from January 18, vaccination will be open to all "patients over 75 years of age outside nursing homes, as well as" firefighters and nursing assistants over 50 ".
However, tensions remain high on this issue.
Vulnerable people, but who have not passed the fateful age of 50, worry that they cannot be vaccinated until late.
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Answers about the vaccine
One week before the official launch of the vaccination campaign, and while certain priority audiences have already benefited from injections, especially in nursing homes, many French people are still wondering about the vaccine against the coronavirus.
At the microphone of Europe 1, Doctor Jimmy Mohamed therefore answered three questions that are often asked to him in consultation.
What is an RNA vaccine?
Can it modify our genetic code?
Can we get vaccinated if we have already had the Covid?
Jimmy Mohamed's answers can be found in our article.
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No collective immunity in 2021, warns WHO
Massive vaccination campaigns, in the face of the galloping progression of Covid-19, will not be enough to guarantee collective immunity in 2021, the WHO warned on Monday, for whom masks, social distancing and hand washing will still be the daily life of the 'humanity "at least until the end of this year".
"We are not going to achieve (...) collective immunity in 2021", launched the scientific officer of the WHO, Soumya Swaminathan.
The deployment of vaccines, when it comes to billions of doses, "takes time," she said, urging "to have a little patience."
Vaccine: AstraZeneca has submitted its dossier in Europe
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced on Tuesday that it had received an application for authorization for the AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine against the new coronavirus, specifying that it could make its decision on January 29.
"The EMA has received a request for authorization for a conditional marketing of the vaccine against the Covid-19 developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford," said the European agency based in Amsterdam, in a statement .
The EMA has already authorized the Pfizer / BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on December 21 and the Moderna vaccine on January 6.
The agency said it would conduct an expedited review, with a decision that could be made on Jan. 29, if the reported data is "robust and complete" enough.
More than 1.9 million deaths worldwide
The pandemic has killed more than 1.93 million people around the world since the end of December 2019, according to a report established by AFP from official sources, Monday at 11:00 GMT.
More than 90.19 million cases of contamination have been officially diagnosed since the start of the epidemic.
The United States is the most affected country with more than 375,892 deaths.
Brazil (203,580 recorded deaths), India (151,160), Mexico (more than 133,700) and the United Kingdom (more than 81,400) follow.