The coronavirus vaccination campaign continues to progress in France.
The threshold of 30 million French people having received at least one dose of vaccine was crossed on Saturday.
Even if hospitalizations continue to decline, the Delta variant of the coronavirus continues to worry: a cluster has been identified in Strasbourg.
In France, the health situation continues to improve day after day.
The pace of vaccination remains sustained: a "very strong increase" has been observed among 18-49 year olds.
The threshold of 30 million French people having received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine was crossed on Saturday.
At the same time, the number of people hospitalized for Covid-19 has dropped back below 13,000, to the lowest since the end of October.
But the Delta variant, of Indian origin, could again create panic.
An "immediate action plan" was triggered by the ARS after the detection of a cluster in Strasbourg.
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30 million French people have received at least one dose of vaccine
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A cluster of the Delta variant was detected in Strasbourg
The Roland Garros public defied the curfew on Friday evening
30 million French people have received at least one dose of vaccine
The threshold of 30 million French people who have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine was crossed on Saturday, announced Prime Minister Jean Castex, who called for "winning the battle against the virus".
"Objective achieved! Thank you to all those who are mobilizing for vaccination", published the head of government on Twitter, while the figure of 30 million first-time injected was initially expected for next Tuesday.
✅ Objective achieved!
Thank you to all those who are mobilizing for vaccination: it is thanks to you that we will win the battle against the virus.
For those who have not yet been vaccinated, doses are available near you at https://t.co/sGpUtk5csy.
https://t.co/jbeoqywghM
- Jean Castex (@JeanCASTEX) June 12, 2021
A Delta variant cluster identified in Strasbourg
The Regional Health Agency (ARS) of the Grand Est on Saturday announced an "immediate action plan" after the detection of a "Delta variant cluster (said Indian)" within the Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg.
Four positive cases are "already identified" and 43 contact cases are "under investigation," said the ARS in a press release.
Targeted vaccination operations are planned over the weekend, as well as a "strong mobilization of anti-covid mediators".
The prefecture has declared the school closed.
The situation continues to improve at the hospital
The pressure on the hospital continues to decrease, the number of people hospitalized for Covid-19 dropping back below 13,000, to the lowest since the end of October, according to data released Friday by Public Health France.
The health agency listed 12,712 people hospitalized against 13,090 the day before, with 313 admissions over the last 24 hours.
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The number of people currently in critical care, who are treating the most serious cases, is 2,163 against 2,245 patients on Thursday.
66 people were admitted to these services in 24 hours.
The outbreak has killed 69 people in hospital in the past 24 hours, bringing the number of deaths since the outbreak began in March 2020 to 83,910 in hospital and more than 110,300 in total.
The improvement in the situation is mainly due to the acceleration of vaccination.
Since the start of the vaccination campaign in France, 29,831,488 people have received at least one injection and 13,722,706 people have received two injections.
This represents respectively 56.8% and 26.1% of the adult population.
Police disperse a giant party in the heart of Paris
Young people gathered by the hundreds on Friday evening for a party on the Esplanade des Invalides in Paris, often clustered together and without masks, until the police intervened to disperse them at curfew time.
"We danced, did pogos (dances from the punk movement consisting of jumping in all directions trying to jostle each other) but from 11pm, the 'cops' arrived and charged, it dispersed everyone", said told one of the revelers, Gaspard, 17 years old.
"Intervention underway by the police to end a festive evening bringing together several hundred participants in defiance of health rules," tweeted the prefecture around 11:30 pm, after the time of the curfew.
Esplanade des Invalides |
Intervention underway by the police to put an end to a festive evening bringing together several hundred participants in defiance of sanitary rules.
pic.twitter.com/jj24fmbI6F
- Police Prefecture (@prefpolice) June 11, 2021
The Roland-Garros public defies the curfew
While he should have left the Philippe-Chatrier court at 11 p.m. to respect the curfew, the public attending the Roland-Garros semi-final between Nadal and Djokovic was exceptionally allowed to stay until the end. of the match, played in a crazy atmosphere. Friday evening, Rafael Nadal, thirteen-time winner of Roland-Garros, was overthrown by world number 1 Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals of the Paris tournament. The 5,000 spectators, however, should have left the enclosure at 11 p.m. to respect the curfew.
But around 10:40 p.m., the organizers relieved the crowd by announcing that they were allowed to stay until the end, thanks to an exceptional exemption granted at the very last minute by the highest authorities.
"Madam, Sir, in agreement with the national authorities, the match will come to an end in your presence", indicated the announcer.
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The Delta variant 60% more contagious, according to British health authorities
The Delta variant, now dominant in the UK, is 60% more contagious than its predecessor in the country, according to a study released on Friday, three days after the government's decision to lift the latest restrictions was announced.
Health Minister Matt Hancock recently mentioned the figure of 40%.
According to this study by the British health authorities (Public Health England), 42,323 cases (29,892 more than a week ago) of this variant identified in India have been detected in the United Kingdom, where it represents more than 90% of new case.
Public Health England considers however "encouraging" to observe that this increase is not accompanied by an increase in hospitalizations in the same proportions.
A thousand patients with the coronavirus are currently in British hospitals.
Moscow mayor decrees a week off in the face of rising cases
The mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, on Saturday declared a nonworking week to stem the spread of coronavirus in the Russian capital, in the face of a drastic increase in cases of contamination.
"This last week, the situation with the spread of the coronavirus has deteriorated markedly, the number of new contaminations having reached the peaks of last year," Sergei Sobyanin said in a statement.
Moscow recorded 6,701 new cases of coronavirus on Saturday, a record for the Russian capital since last December.
More than 3.7 million deaths worldwide
The pandemic has killed more than 3,787,127 worldwide since the end of December 2019, according to an assessment established by AFP from official sources on Saturday at 10 a.m.
After the United States (599,180 dead), the countries recording the highest number of deaths are Brazil (484,235), India (367,081), Mexico (229,823) and Peru (188,100), the latter country deploring the higher death toll in relation to its population.
These figures, which are based on daily reports from national health authorities, are generally underestimated. They exclude the upward revisions carried out a posteriori by certain statistical organizations. The WHO even estimates, taking into account the excess mortality directly and indirectly linked to Covid-19, that the results of the pandemic could be two to three times higher than that officially recorded.