Hospital pressure linked to Covid-19 continues to increase in France.
According to a last assessment established Monday evening, 3,849 patients were taken care of in the intensive care units.
In total, 88,933 people have died in France since the start of the epidemic.
But the government does not plan to tighten the measures, especially in Ile-de-France.
On the other hand, a strict confinement of two weeks was decreed in the archipelago of Wallis-and-Futuna.
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The situation is still critical on Tuesday in hospitals in the Paris region.
Faced with the influx of patients affected by Covid-19, hospitals and clinics have been ordered to deprogram activities.
According to the latest report published by Public Health France on Monday evening, the country has a total of 88,933 deaths since the start of the epidemic.
On Tuesday, 3,849 people were in intensive care, or 106 more than during the last assessment.
The information to remember
Hospital pressure is increasing in France, but the government does not plan to tighten up for the moment
In Île-de-France, hospitals are ordered to deprogram 40% of activities
Pharmacists can order to vaccinate in turn, grumbles general practitioners
A strict two-week lockdown came into effect on Tuesday in Wallis and Futuna
For the first time since November, the United States records less than 1,000 deaths in 24 hours
In Ile-de-France, "the firm order" to deprogram medical activities
The regional health agency (ARS) of Île-de-France on Monday gave "the firm order" to hospitals and clinics in the Paris region to deprogram 40% of their medical and surgical activities, to increase the number of dedicated intensive care beds to patients with Covid-19, according to its director general Aurélien Rousseau.
With 973 patients currently in intensive care for "less than 1,050 beds" available, "we are in a situation of very strong tension", he declared.
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100,000 daily vaccinations
In this context, the health authorities are called upon to maintain the pace of the vaccination campaign.
For four consecutive days, from Wednesday to Saturday, the number of daily bites exceeded 100,000 in the country, including more than 180,000 Friday and Saturday in dedicated centers, a record rate.
In total, 3.7 million French people received at least one dose of the vaccine (or about 5.6% of the population), of which 1.9 million were vaccinated with two doses.
Pharmacists can vaccinate, grumbles general practitioners
Since Monday, pharmacists can order to vaccinate in turn.
But not general practitioners, "given the number of doses delivered by AstraZeneca," said a note from the Directorate General of Health published on Sunday.
On Twitter, the union of liberal doctors (SML) did not hide its anger: "to give in to the whim of pharmacists, the general directorate of health decides that doctors will not be able to vaccinate next week while all the appointments you are already taken ".
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In addition, LREM deputy Loïc Dombreval sent a letter to the Minister of Health indicating that veterinarians could lend a hand to vaccinate the population against Covid-19, "if we were to be faced with a lack of professionals", specifies- he does.
Veterinarians "practice vaccination daily".
"If we were to be faced with a lack of professionals to vaccinate, appealing to volunteer veterinarians from the health reserve would respond to the will displayed by the government to accelerate the vaccination campaign", also writes Loïc Dombreval.
According to him, veterinarians are already vaccinating in Argentina, Canada and some states in the United States.
EU steps up pace on vaccines
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday she expected "100 million doses per month" of vaccine to be delivered in the second quarter to the EU "and a total of 300 million by the end of June" , evoking both an increase in the rate of deliveries and the close authorization of new products.
Two-week "strict and controlled confinement" in Wallis and Futuna
A two-week "strict and controlled" containment has been decreed in the small archipelago of Wallis-and-Futuna, where 36 first cases of Covid-19 were detected in three days, the Higher Administration (prefecture) said on Monday.
This confinement came into effect at 6 a.m. on Tuesday.
A very first indigenous case of the disease was declared on Saturday, the principal of a college in Wallis which was evacuated in serious condition to New Caledonia, while Wallis and Futuna were previously among the few exempt territories. of Covid from the planet.
A major screening campaign has since detected 35 other cases, including only one on the island of Futuna.
On Monday, 400 tests were carried out in these Polynesian islands of about 11,000 inhabitants, struck by high rates of obesity and diabetes, which makes them vulnerable to severe forms of the disease.
Fewer than 1,000 dead in the United States for the first time since November
For the first time in nearly three and a half months, the United States recorded less than 1,000 deaths from Covid-19 on Monday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, which refers.
In 24 hours, 749 people died from the coronavirus, far from the peak of 4,473 deaths recorded on the day of January 12 alone.
We have to go back to November 29 to find a number of victims below the thousand mark, at 822 dead.
For President Joe Biden, whose colossal 1.9 trillion aid plan successfully passed the Senate stage on Saturday, this is second good news, which reinforces his very large-scale vaccination strategy.
More than 700,000 dead in Latin America
More than 700,000 deaths from Covid-19 have been officially recorded in Latin America and the Caribbean since the start of the pandemic in December 2019. The 34 countries in the region total 700,022 deaths, behind Europe (876,511) and ahead of the United States / Canada (547,986) and Asia (259,925).
In total, the pandemic has killed at least 2.59 million people worldwide since December 2019. More than 116.7 million cases of infection have been officially diagnosed.
The United States is the most bereaved country with 525,728 deaths, followed by Brazil (266,398), Mexico (190,604), India (157,853) and the United Kingdom (124,419).