DIRECT. Covid-19: “Our goal is to reach 20 million recalls by Christmas”, announces Olivier Véran – archyde

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Hospitalizations continue to increase. More than 13,360 patients are currently hospitalized due to Covid-19, including 2,461 in critical care.
Faced with this increase, the “White plan will probably be national in a few days”, according to the Minister of Health.
56,854 new contaminations were detected in 24 hours by Public Health France.
59 case of Omicron variant are listed in France.
The new restrictions for schools announced by Jean Castex on Monday took effect since Thursday. From now on, elementary school students must wear the mask during recess. From next Monday, the catering conditions will also change.

Follow the events live:

10:20 am. The “worst crisis for 75 years for children”. Asked about France Inter, Ann Avril, Director General of Unicef France returned to the disastrous consequences of the pandemic on the youngest. The Covid represents “the worst global crisis that children have known in our 75 years of existence”, according to the association. “The most important figure is the number of children living in extreme poverty: 100 million more children is huge. These are children who are deprived of a future, ”she laments.

10:10 am. Compulsory full vaccination to go to Ghana. Proof of vaccination against Covid is now mandatory for travelers deciding to go to Ghana, announce the health authorities of the West African country. The West African country has so far administered more than 5.7 million doses, for a country of some 31 million people.

10 hours. The Pfizer booster dose administered in January in South Africa. A third dose from the American laboratory will be administered from January in South Africa, the country which has detected the Omicron variant, indicates the Ministry of Health. “The first people who will be entitled to the booster dose will be the over 60s,” said Dr Nicolas Crisp, director general at the ministry.

9.45 a.m. Statements by Olivier Véran. “Our goal is to reach 20 million recalls by Christmas in our country”, indicates the Minister of Health. “Everyone is working to achieve it”. There are currently 12.3 million recalls (including 7.3 million people aged 65 and over).

Olivier Véran indicates this morning to bet on 20 million vaccinated with reminder “by Christmas”.

We are at 12.3 million (including 7.3 million people aged 65 and over) as of December 8. # Covid19

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– Nicolas Berrod (@nicolasberrod) December 10, 2021

9.40 a.m. The epidemic at school. 45 schools are currently closed due to Covid out of nearly 49,000, according to new data from the Ministry of National Education. In addition, 3,208 classes are closed. The academies of Lyon, Versailles and Nantes are the most affected. If the number of class closures has been falling since new health protocol, are the contaminations still significant: over the last 7 days, 48,494 students have tested positive, including 7,455 in the past 24 hours. 2,693 personnel were also infected over this period, including 434 in 24 hours.

9:25 am. Pharmacies now authorized to open on Sundays. Pharmacists “who wish” will now be able to open every Sunday in December and January to vaccinate against Covid-19. The decree authorizing them has just been published in the Official Journal.

8:50 am. On restrictions in cultural places. “For the moment, there is no question of gauge” in cultural places, affirms on BFMTV the Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot. “I even got the 75% gauge in standing concerts to be abolished,” she says, believing that we are “in the process of controlling the epidemic”.

8:35 am. In the UK, GDP stagnated even before the impact of the Omicron variant. UK growth stagnated in October at 0.1% after already slowing in the third quarter, even before the impact of the new Omicron variant, with some sectors suffering from supply chain problems. Activity in the economy as a whole remains 0.5% below its pre-pandemic level.

8:25 am. VIDEO. With the Parisian revelers, for the last in a club before closing. They braved the rain, the cold and the fatigue of a week’s work to enjoy the last night of dancing and partying in the clubs of the capital …

8:15 am. Pharmacists overwhelmed before the holidays. While a decree should authorize the opening of pharmacies on Sundays to speed up vaccination, some professionals already washed out by the pandemic, take a dim view of this new measure. The “maximum” will be done to vaccinate “as many people as possible before Christmas to avoid a catastrophic month of January. So, all pharmacists who can organize themselves will do it, but we will not be able to do it without an appointment, ”warns of Franceinfo Gilles Bonnefond, spokesperson for the Union Syndicale des Pharmaciens de Pharmacie (USPO).

8 hours. Football matches without spectators in China. The football matches of the Chinese first division will be played without spectators, a measure taken to limit the risks of contamination by Covid, as Beijing prepares to welcome the Winter Olympics. The Chinese Super League (CSL) has announced that the matches will be played behind closed doors until the end of the season in early January.

7:55 am. On the epidemic curve. “The epidemic continues to gain ground but its rate of increase is tending to weaken. I want to see it as the result of the efforts of the French, ”Judge Gabriel Attal.

7:55 am. On vaccination. “Every day, we add hundreds of thousands of vaccination slots, even if we know that many French people cannot find an appointment. We will add 8 million slots by the beginning of January, ”warns the spokesperson. And to add: “We broke another record yesterday with more than 700,000 injections”.

7:50 a.m. On the end of Christmas holidays. “There is no specific recommendation [pour les fêtes]. The French know they are responsible, unfortunately they are used to living with the Covid. (…) I am not in the infantilization of the French ”, continues Gabriel Attal.

7.45 a.m. Statements by Gabriel Attal. “We have an incidence rate of 470 per 100,000 inhabitants, we are approaching the peak of the second wave. Fortunately, we have two to three times fewer hospitalizations, thanks to vaccination, ”said the government spokesperson.

7:40 am. The majority of nursing home residents have received their booster dose of vaccine. Asked about Franceinfo, the Minister Delegate to the Ministry of Solidarity and Health, in charge of Autonomy, Brigitte Bourguignon indicates that “80% of nursing home residents have received their booster dose, their 3rd vaccine”. “The priority was to protect the most vulnerable, as we did in the first wave,” she continued.

7.20 a.m. Fatigue is still felt among the French. According to an Ipsos-Fondation Jean-Jaurès survey, fatigue is the first qualifier used by the French to characterize their current state of mind. Why are we all flat? Covid, sedentary lifestyle, disordered life … There are many reasons for this. Read our decryption on the subject.

7 hours. Peru pays tribute to its doctors who died from Covid. Country with the highest number of deaths in the world in relation to its population, Peru paid tribute to the 551 doctors who died of Covid, or more than 6% of the profession. On the gates of the national headquarters of the Order of Physicians, their portraits were hung and the street renamed “Paseo de los Heroes”.

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6:50 a.m. From when does the 3rd dose really protect us? Two, seven, fifteen days… the specialists do not quite agree, hence the importance of not slackening the vigilance, immediately after his vaccination booster. “Some will be well protected on the 5th day, others on the 8th”, estimates Étienne Decroly, researcher at the CNRS. One thing is certain, the third dose rearms us more quickly against the virus than the second. Read our decryption on the subject.

6:40 am. The partly virtual Sundance festival. The film festival will be held next month for the first time simultaneously in the flesh in its usual mountains of the American West and… on the Internet, announce the organizers. The Covid-19 pandemic had already forced the festival to a 100% virtual formula last January.

6:35 am. The recall with Pfizer authorized for teens in the United States. US authorities on Thursday further lowered the age from which a booster dose of Pfizer’s anti-Covid vaccine can be received, allowing it in adolescents aged 16 and 17. The announcement comes the day after data was released by the company showing that a booster dose is expected to be crucial in fighting Omicron.

6.30 a.m. The closure of the borders prolonged for Morocco. The kingdom decided to extend the suspension of passenger flights to and from the country at least until December 31, according to a note from the Moroccan Civil Aviation Directorate. The country’s air borders have been closed since November 29 due to the spread of Omicron variant and the resurgence of the pandemic in Europe.

6:25 am. In Brazil, the New Year’s party in Rio will finally take place. The mayor of Rio de Janeiro ensures that the New Year’s festivities would take place, five days after announcing their cancellation due to concerns related to Covid-19. With this turnaround, the transition to the year 2022 in Brazil’s second city will have the famous fireworks display on Copacabana beach as its climax. The planned concerts were however canceled.

6:20 a.m. Good morning ! Welcome to this new live dedicated to Covid-19 and its consequences in France and around the world.

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