Controls are tightened on roads and in stations, but the French are generally respectful of the ban on interregional travel at the start of the Easter holidays.
From Monday, the TGV offer will be further reduced to adapt to the drop in attendance.
In terms of health, the government encourages "all health professionals" to strengthen hospitals.
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France is living its first weekend of "real" third confinement.
After an Easter weekend where the police were invited to show flexibility, controls are reinforced for the start of the school holidays, the calendar of which has been aligned everywhere in France.
In terms of health, there are now 98,395 deaths from Covid-19 in France and the government calls on "all health professionals" to come and strengthen hospitals.
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Information to remember:
Controls are stepped up in France on the first weekend of the Easter holidays
The government encourages "all health professionals" to come and strengthen hospitals
No link has been established between thrombosis and Johnson & Johnson vaccine, according to the US Medicines Agency
Reinforced controls for the Easter holidays
This Saturday is the first official day of the Easter holidays… But there is no question of leaving more than 10 km from home.
The tolerance of last weekend, which was to allow everyone to reach the place where they wanted to confine themselves, is no longer appropriate and police and gendarmerie checks are reinforced in stations and on the roads.
The transgressions remained rather exceptional, Friday evening, as illustrated by the toll of Villefranche-sur-Saône very little frequented, far from the usual traffic jams.
More than 5,700 patients in "critical care" service in France
On the front of the epidemic, after a slight drop on Thursday, the number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care began to rise again on Friday, exceeding 5,750 patients, according to daily figures from Public Health France.
In total, 5,757 Covid patients are now in critical care services (sheave, intensive care, continuous monitoring), including 498 admissions in 24 hours.
This closely watched indicator is thus still approaching the peak of the first wave (just over 7,000 patients at the start of April 2020).
The peak of the second wave (just over 4,900 patients in mid-November) had been exceeded at the end of March.
Government "encourages all health professionals" to strengthen hospitals
Faced with this third wave of the epidemic, the government on Friday encouraged "all health professionals" to come to support hospitals in France.
Their mobilization is "crucial for the care of patients with Covid-19, but also of all other patients and allow a turnover of hospital teams," said the Ministry of Health in a press release.
# COVID19 |
The @GouvernementFR encourages all health professionals to support health establishments.
➡New systems have been put in place for these mobilized professionals, discover them: https://t.co/FqGWK4eJjT
⤵ See you on
- Ministry of Solidarity and Health (@Sante_Gouv) April 9, 2021
The government has put in place a series of incentive measures: health students can, for example, "all be mobilized, taking into account the situation of students in their last year of training, as well as exam periods".
They then receive "an exceptional internship allowance during this period, for example an increase of 100% for students in medicine, maieutics, dentistry and pharmacy," said the press release.
SNCF is still removing TGVs from Monday
Interregional travel being prohibited except for "compelling reasons" and the number of trains falling, SNCF announced on Friday that it would further reduce the pace on TGVs from Monday 12 April.
It intends to run 4 TGVs out of 10 on average on the South-East, Atlantic and East axes, as well as for the Ouigo.
On the North axis, the offer remains reduced to 3 TGV out of 10. Since the beginning of the year, SNCF had been running 3 TGVs out of 4 on average, before reducing its offer on March 29, offering from 3 to 6 TGVs. out of 10 according to the axes.
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No link established between thrombosis and Johnson & Johnson
On the vaccine front, a causal link has not been established at this point between the formation of blood clots and the injection of Johnson & Johnson's serum, the United States Medicines Agency (FDA) said on Friday, saying to investigate cases in the United States.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said earlier Friday it was investigating links between the "J&J" vaccine and cases of blood clots.
The EMA also said it was investigating possible links between the AstraZeneca vaccine and cases of blood vessel problems, after admitting this week that there were rare side effects in the form of blood clots.
In addition, the Pfizer / BioNTech alliance filed on Friday in the United States a request to extend the emergency authorization of its vaccine to adolescents aged 12 to 15 years, which could launch a new crucial phase of vaccination. for collective immunity.
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More than 2.9 million dead
The pandemic has killed at least 2,903,907 people around the world, according to the latest by AFP from official sources, Friday in the middle of the day.
The United States is the country with the most deaths (560,996), ahead of Brazil (348,718), Mexico (206,146), India (167,642) and the United Kingdom (126,980).
These figures are globally underestimated.
They are based on daily reports from national health authorities, without including reassessments based on statistical bases.