The signals of the coronavirus epidemic are still green in France, with now less than 3,500 patients in intensive care.
The appearance of a cluster involving a worrying variant in a district of Bordeaux still worries the authorities.
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Days go by, and France continues to take reassuring levels on the front of the coronavirus epidemic.
Since Monday, fewer than 3,500 patients have been admitted to critical care services.
The authorities remain vigilant, however, especially after the appearance of a cluster in a district of Bordeaux.
Due to the presence of a "worrying" variant of Covid, the population of Bacalan is called upon to test themselves but also to be vaccinated as soon as possible.
Some 19,000 doses of vaccine have been released for this purpose and residents are now among the priority groups.
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The main information to remember:
Less than 3,500 people are admitted to critical care services
The appearance of a cluster worries the authorities and the inhabitants of Bacalan, a district of Bordeaux
Mysterious agency offered influencers to criticize Pfizer vaccine for a fee
In the hospital, the number of patients continues to decline
The number of Covid-19 patients in French hospitals continues to decline slowly, including in intensive care units, according to data released Tuesday by Public Health France.
19,430 patients with Covid-19 are currently hospitalized (against 19,701 the day before), including 796 admitted in the last 24 hours.
This figure, which had exceeded 31,000 at the height of the third wave in mid-April, fell back below 20,000 on Saturday for the first time since October 27.
Critical care services count 3,447 patients on Tuesday (against 3,496 the day before).
205 have been admitted to these services since Monday.
The number of patients in critical care remained around 6,000 between mid-April and early May, before dropping sharply since.
199 people with Covid-19 have died in hospital in the past 24 hours (after 70 Sunday and 62 Monday).
Massive screening and vaccinations in the Bacalan district, in Bordeaux
Four days after the detection of a cluster involving a "worrying" variant in a district of Bordeaux, the authorities are doing everything possible to contain the contamination. A screening center was immediately opened in the neighborhood, with the aim of breaking the chains of contamination. The neighborhood school also asked all students to get tested before reopening on Tuesday.
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Another big operation begins this Tuesday since all the major inhabitants of Bacalan will become a priority public for vaccination.
Some 19,000 doses of Pfizer and Moderna have been released for this purpose.
From noon, residents were able to make an appointment on dedicated platforms to make an appointment at a vaccination center or at the pharmacist.
An ephemeral vaccination center will be set up in the neighborhood on Wednesday.
The authorities are giving themselves three weeks to use up all the doses.
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Influencers approached to criticize the Pfizer vaccine on social networks
Several influencers who have more than a million and a half subscribers on YouTube in total, indicated Monday that they were contacted by a communication agency, which offered them, for a fee, to post messages implicating the Pfizer vaccine.
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Sami Ouladitto (comedian, with nearly 400,000 subscribers on YouTube), Et ça se dit Médecin (medical intern, 84,000 Instagram subscribers) and Léo Grasset (popularizer of science, 1.17 million subscribers to his YouTube channel) shared on their Twitter accounts have the same story: an agency contacted them to offer them a "partnership" to sharply criticize the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine.
Contacted, the laboratory has so far not reacted.
Americans get vaccinated, Hong Kong people are wary
The mistrust and hesitation of Hong Kongers vis-à-vis coronavirus vaccines means that the authorities of the former British colony may soon have to throw away millions of expired doses, a local official warned on Tuesday. The city is one of the few places in the world which is lucky to have managed to obtain enough doses to vaccinate its entire population, but the vaccination campaign is far from having the hoped-for success, for many. reasons.
First of all, there is the deep mistrust of the Hong Kongers vis-à-vis the authorities who are perceived as the arm of Chinese repression, two years after the immense popular mobilization of 2019. But the hesitation vis-à-vis the vaccines is also the result of misinformation online, and the relatively widespread feeling that there is no rush to get vaccinated.
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Conversely, vaccination is still in full swing in the United States, where the milestone of 50% of fully vaccinated adults will be crossed on Tuesday, according to the White House.
More than 60% of adults have already received at least one dose.
Moderna vaccine "highly effective" in 12-17 year olds
For its part, the American biotechnology company Moderna announced that its vaccine against Covid-19 was "highly effective" in adolescents aged 12 to 17, according to full results of clinical trials.
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Moderna says it plans to file an application for authorization to use its vaccine for this age group "in early June" with "regulators around the world".
Another vaccine, that of Pfizer / BioNTech, is already authorized for adolescents in several countries, including the United States.
A call from Latin American countries for an equitable distribution of vaccines
Six leaders of Latin American and Caribbean countries called on the international community for equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines on Monday, asking countries with the most doses to share them. "We strongly appeal to countries which have a surplus of doses or which have already vaccinated their populations at risk, to implement measures so that these surpluses are distributed equitably and immediately", affirm- they in a joint statement released by the President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado.
Besides the latter, the appeal was signed by Argentine President Alberto Fernandez, Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Michael Holness, Bolivian President Luis Alberto Arce Catacora, Ecuador Guillermo Lasso Mendoza and Uruguay's Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou.
Of the 1.3 billion doses of vaccines already administered worldwide, more than half were in five countries, which account for 50% of global GDP, according to official data.
More than 3.46 million dead
The pandemic has killed at least 3,465,398 people around the world since the end of December 2019, according to a report established by AFP from official sources Monday at 10:00 GMT.
After the United States (590,262), the countries with the highest number of deaths are Brazil (449,068), India (303,720), Mexico (221,647) and the United Kingdom (127,721).
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.
By taking into account the excess mortality directly and indirectly linked to Covid-19, the WHO estimates that the real toll of the pandemic is "two to three times higher".