DIRECT. Coronavirus in France: close to a million infections per day, according to Véran – Linternaute.com

Guest of the TF1 1pm newscast, the First Lady said she supported the caregivers: “We are with them and we will help them as much as possible. They will hold on, they must hold on. There is no help. other means “.

This Wednesday, Gabriel Attal recognizes a failure in the communication of school health protocols: “Some information arrived late, it’s true”, he conceded during his press briefing, before justifying that “obviously, everything was not perfect. All is not perfect in the management of the crisis. There may be mistakes, announcements made at the last moment “.

And to add: “We prefer to face these difficulties and these criticisms, rather than to say that the easiest not to be criticized is to close the schools”

According to Gabriel Attal, 2% of the classes are currently closed.

In his report to the Council of Ministers, government spokesman Gabriel Attal defended the executive’s strategy of keeping schools open despite the heavy traffic of Omicron: “We are not deviating from our course: we want to live as normally as possible despite the virus, “he insisted. And to add: “Behind the closed classes, it would be the whole of society which would lower the curtains. This would have consequences on the daily life of our fellow citizens”. Concluding that “the closing of schools will never be an easy one, it must remain a last resort”, the Secretary of State to the Prime Minister recalled: “We prefer to test than to close”.

Olivier Nataf, president of the French subsidiary of AstraZeneca, said on Wednesday at the microphone of BFMTV that 500 people per day requested to receive the monoclonal antibody treatment developed by AstraZeneca, the Evusheld.

As a reminder, Evusheld (tixagevimab / cilgavimab) allows immunosuppressed people in whom the vaccine does not work to avoid severe forms. “We inject the antibodies that the person cannot manufacture”, explained Olivier Nataf. Authorized in France since December 9, more than “3,000 patients have been able to use it” for the moment, he added. And to indicate that the company estimates that in the long term, “350,000 people” in France could benefit from it. Mr. Nataf welcomed the protection offered by the treatment, which he said is “almost immediate, in 6 hours” and lasts up to “6 months”.

Guest of BFMTV, the candidate of the National Assembly for the presidential election Marine Le Pen indicated, on Wednesday, to be in favor of the abandonment of the three self-tests at school, a device forming part of the school health protocol: “Leave the young people and children alone. […]. These protocols drive parents and teachers crazy. Children if they are sick, they are mild forms. I am for stopping letting children cry. They are belted to do tests, “she hammered, without offering an alternative.

According to the Institut Pasteur, France could record between 2,500 and 3,600 daily hospitalizations at the height of the 5th wave in mid-January, given the circulation and virulence of Omicron as well as the measures already in place.

According to a catch-up carried out by Public Health France, 427,410 positive people were detected on January 3. A new record for the number of new daily infections.

At the microphone of France 2, the infectious disease specialist Yazdan Yazdanpanah recalled the importance of barrier gestures: “The only one is not enough: the population must respect a certain number of rules. Wearing a mask correctly” is one of them, he detailed.

On France 2 this Wednesday, infectious disease specialist Yazdan Yazdanpanah assumed that the coronavirus could become a seasonal virus, in which case it would be necessary to “vaccinate vulnerable populations” regularly, as for the flu.

On the Télématin plateau on France 2, Yazdan Yazdanpanah indicated that in all likelihood, “we will reach a peak” of contamination during the “second half of January”, which will result in hospitals “at the beginning of February” according to him.

And to add: “We are concerned because the number of contaminations is so important that there will be an impact on the hospital”.

This Wednesday, the infectious disease specialist Yazdan Yazdanpanah indicated that with the strong circulation of Omicron, “we must be at 500,000 cases per day”, which amounts to saying “one in two” has contracted Covid-19 in France .

Guest of Télématin, the infectious disease specialist and member of the Scientific Council Yazdan Yazdanpanah indicated to foresee “one more month” of hospital tension, during which it will be necessary to be “very vigilant”.

At the microphone of Franceinfo, Oliver Véran defended the health protocol at school, explaining that with the latest measures put in place at school, we want to slow down the virus, but we do not want to slow down education more than necessary “.

And to add: “It was necessary, in a pragmatic way, to reassess our capacity at the same time to protect the school, to protect the families, to protect the children. I salute the mobilization of the teaching staff, the parents of pupils and once again, from all the actors who allow us to achieve this. I am convinced that the self-test device distributed free of charge in pharmacies for families is a device that will allow us to maintain the education of children. “