DIRECT. Coronavirus in France: capacity building for tests, the vaccine pass … – Linternaute.com

While the bill on the vaccine pass will be examined this Monday, January 10 by the Senate, 28 deputies have received death threats by email since the beginning of the year, according to figures revealed by the Ministry of the Interior in the JDD. Le Journal du dimanche specifies that it is the elected LREM who are targeted in priority by these threats, as well as certain elected Modem and LR.

The Communist presidential candidate Fabien Roussel proposed on France 3, this Sunday, to recruit 10,000 young people at the bac + 3 level to replace the absent teachers linked to the Covid-19. “We need to replace immediately the teachers who are affected by the Covid. Once their mission is completed, these young people will be offered to continue if they wish in National Education” by taking exams before being established , added Fabien Roussel.

Seven teachers’ unions called for a national strike on Thursday, January 13, in schools, colleges and high schools. According to them, the policy led by the National Education in the face of Covid-19 is causing massive disorganization of the school system. They want a “clarification” of the sanitary protocol and the security of the establishments vis-à-vis the Omicron variant.

In a column published this Sunday in the columns of the Parisian, Professor David Smadja, professor of hematology and Benjamin Fellous, lawyer at the Paris bar, call for “sanctioning” the unvaccinated against Covid-19 if they contaminate ‘other people. According to them, “there should be a latent criminal risk to be placed on a person who knowingly refuses to be vaccinated and who transmits the Covid-19 virus”.

While the bill transforming the health pass into a vaccination pass will be examined on Monday January 10 in committee in the Senate, the question of its duration arises beyond July 31, 2022. “In absolute terms, it is not completely. inconsistent to say that the vaccine pass will only be a transitory pass, “said Senator Véronique Guillotin, member of the European Democratic and Social Rally (centrist) group, Sunday January 9 on franceinfo. She added that “it is legitimate” for restaurateurs and other professions to be able to verify the identity of their customers subject to the vaccination pass.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI) said he wanted to use FFP2 masks for everyone, free of charge and “starting with teachers,” he said on RTL this Sunday. “It is more effective than the surgical mask,” added the 2022 presidential candidate

The Covid-19 pandemic has killed more than 5,483,023 worldwide, according to the AFP report published on Sunday. The United States remains the most bereaved country with 837,264 dead, followed by Brazil (619,937), India (483,790) and Russia (316,163).

According to Leondios Kostrikis, professor of Biology at the University of Cyprus, “there are currently Omicron and Delta co-infections and we have found this strain which is a combination of these two”. Asked by the Bloomberg press agency, the professor is working on contaminations in Cyprus where the incidence rate is the highest in Europe. This combination would have “the genetic signature of Omicron and the genomes of Delta”, hence its name “Deltacron”. 25 cases have been identified, according to the Cyprus Mail. Samples have been sent for verification.

Guest of BFMTV, Gabriel Attal announced this Sunday a strengthening of the testing policy in France. “Almost 10 million people” are tested per week despite an increasingly long waiting period. “Screening centers will open near vaccination centers, and pharmacies will be able to create their own center and recruit health professionals,” he added.

According to Gabriel Attal, guest on BFMTV, this Sunday, the generalization of FFP2 masks, more effective against Omicron, is being examined by the High Council of Public Health which is due to issue an opinion in the coming days.

In an interview given to franceinfo, Dr Thomas Hottier, director of a group of French laboratories, believes that “education in the sensitivity of tests” is needed in the face of the Omicron variant. He recalls that self-tests are less effective than PCR tests in detecting the presence of Covid-19. While approximately 70,000 tests per day are carried out by his laboratory, Thomas Hottier assures us that “the saliva samples in PCR, we are 90% reliable and on conventional, nasopharyngeal PCRs, we are at 100%. So we must test with the right tests at the right time of the outbreak. “

Pr Antoine Flahault, director of the Institute of Global Health in Geneva (Switzerland), said on Twitter that the reproduction rate of the virus is currently set at 1.28 in France. This means that on average, a patient contaminates 1.28. Thus, if this indicator indicator remains above 1, the epidemic is progressing.

10% of the French population was screened in a week, said the Union of pharmacists unions on franceinfo. Faced with the demand, the spokesperson for the Union of dispensing pharmacists’ unions, Gilles Bonnefond, called for “ephemeral centers and screening centers” to relieve pharmacies.

Gabriel Attal, government spokesman, said “assume to put pressure on people who are not vaccinated, to put constraints to convince them to be vaccinated”, on BFMTV, this Sunday.