While hospital pressure remains strong and the situation is worrying in Île-de-France, the government is still trying to avoid re-containment, and is currently transferring patients to relieve the region.
In Europe, several countries have suspended the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
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Despite the tightening of restrictions decided in recent weeks, the pressure on the health system remains very high, with a continuous increase in patients with Covid-19 in intensive care.
The situation in Île-de-France particularly worries the authorities, to the point that the region is more than ever under the threat of re-containment.
But if a re-containment is "not excluded", the executive always tries to avoid having to resort to this option, and put on the transfers of patients and the acceleration of the vaccination.
But on this last point, France, like the whole of the EU, is lagging behind, while the AstraZeneca vaccine is multiplying the setbacks.
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The main information to remember
More than 4,100 patients are in intensive care
Several patients evacuated to relieve the Île-de-France
AstraZeneca vaccine suspended in several countries
Italy is reconfiguring itself
Île-de-France under threat of re-containment
A year after the first shutdown of the country, the government is still trying to avoid a third confinement, and has launched a "massive" evacuation of patients to relieve the Île-de-France, under tension.
In the region, "the situation is worrying and we do not hide it", noted Prime Minister Jean Castex, guest live on the Twitch network.
But he once again hammered that if confinement "is not excluded", "we must use all the weapons at our disposal to avoid it".
Faced with the risk of saturation in Île-de-France, the executive wants to speed up medical evacuations.
After three people on Saturday and three on Sunday, six a day will be evacuated by air from Monday, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said.
And a "more massive operation" will be organized at the end of the week by medicalized TGVs, he added, estimating at a total of a hundred the number of medical evacuations from Île-de-France next week, mainly to the Pays de la Loire, New Aquitaine and Occitanie.
To avoid a new confinement, the executive also relies on the acceleration of the vaccination.
More than 5 million people have now received a first injection, including more than 2 million in the past two weeks, and 2.2 million have received their two doses.
AstraZeneca vaccine suspensions pile up
The Netherlands suspended the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine on Sunday as a precaution until March 28 inclusive, after "possible side effects" were reported in Denmark and Norway, without a proven link at this stage, according to the ministry of health.
Earlier today, Ireland had made the same decision.
Norway, which also reported skin hemorrhages in vaccinated young people on Saturday, suspended the vaccine last week, as did Denmark, Iceland and Bulgaria.
Both Thailand and the Republic of Congo have postponed their vaccination campaigns.
After a brief suspension of AstraZeneca vaccinations on Sunday, following the death of a teacher vaccinated the day before, the Italian region of Piedmont has decided to resume them, however, as a precaution, excluding a batch of vaccines from the Anglo-Swedish laboratory.
For AstraZeneca, these disappointments are added to the new drop in its deliveries to the European Union by June that the laboratory was forced to announce, citing export problems.
Hospital pressure remains strong in France
The number of patients in intensive care increased further on Sunday, while hospital pressure remains at a high level, according to figures from Public Health France, which show more than 25,000 new contaminations.
While the threshold of 4,000 Covid patients in intensive care or intensive care was crossed Friday for the first time since the end of November, this number increased again slightly in 24 hours, to 4,127 on Saturday, including 188 new admissions.
More than a quarter of these patients in shifts (1,134) are in Île-de-France.
With 821 new hospitalizations in 24 hours across the country, there are now 24,989 Covid patients in hospitals in France, a slight increase compared to the previous day.
140 new deaths were recorded at the hospital in 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to 90,455 people since the start of the epidemic.
The number of new cases of contamination rose to 26,343, against 29,759 the day before and 21,825 a week ago.
The positivity rate remains at 7.4%.
"Reassuring" figures in New Caledonia "
The figures for the epidemic in New Caledonia, currently in containment after the detection of 9 cases outside the fortnight on March 7, are "reassuring", local government spokesman Christopher Gygès said on Monday.
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On Monday, New Caledonia had in all 23 cases of Covid-19 outside the fortnight, almost all of which are people recently returned from Wallis and Futuna or having been in contact with them.
No patient is in intensive care.
Containment, with closed schools, came into effect for two weeks on March 9, according to a "zero-Covid" strategy inspired by those applied in the two large countries in the region, Australia and New Zealand .
Italy is reconfiguring itself
Italy, which has just exceeded 100,000 dead from Covid-19, is three quarters confined from Monday until April 6, which includes the Easter holidays.
Schools, restaurants, shops and museums will be closed in most of the country, classified in the red zone against Covid-19.
The country expects an improvement "in the second half of spring", according to its Minister of Health Roberto Speranza.
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The peninsula was a year ago the first nation affected in Europe and had imposed a first confinement in the north, then extended to the entire territory.
EU: a "green passport" for the summer
The European authorities are aiming for the entry into service of a health certificate, called the "green passport", to facilitate travel within the EU, before the summer holidays, announced Sunday Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton, invited from Europe 1.
This draft certificate, which would be "either in electronic or paper form", will be presented on Wednesday.
It will contain information "which will indicate that a person has been vaccinated against Covid-19, or that they have recovered, or that they have received a negative result in the test," he said.
Nearly 2.65 million dead
The pandemic has killed nearly 2.65 million people worldwide, according to a report established by AFP from official sources on Sunday in the middle of the day.
The United States is the country with the most deaths with 534,877 deaths, followed by Brazil (278,229), Mexico (194,490), India (158,607), and the United Kingdom (125,464).