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11:29 a.m. : The epidemic rebound and the acceleration of the presidential campaign has revived the debate on the application of the health pass to political meetings: Jean-François Delfraissy said in favor yesterday, but it is prohibited by the texts in force. This morning on RMC, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who is holding a meeting in Paris on Sunday, asks his supporters “to wear your mask and to respect barrier gestures”. “It’s not such a big effort, frankly”, comments the leader of rebellious France.
11:14 : In Biella, in northern Italy, a man came to a vaccination center with a silicone arm prosthesis, hoping to deceive the vigilance of caregivers to obtain his health pass without actually receiving an injection. His subterfuge failed, and it was the president of the Piedmont region who told this story on Facebook. He assures us that this fiftieth “will respond to justice”.
10:27 : The city of Oslo, Norway, announces that 17 people are suspected of having been infected with the Omicron variant at a party, where there was a person whose contamination with this variant was confirmed by sequencing.
9:46 a.m. : Finally, the Minister of Health recalled that the two vaccines accessible for the booster dose, those of Pfizer and Moderna, are “interchangeable” (except for those under 30, for whom the Moderna is not recommended). A response to “elected officials who say ‘I want Pfizer in my center and not Moderna'”, whose president of the Association of Mayors of France was the spokesperson yesterday.
9:15 a.m. : “Every day, there are 600,000 to 700,000 slots that open up. will be vaccinated before January 15. I have no doubt about this. “
The Minister of Health also gave a reassuring speech concerning access to the booster dose.
9:09 a.m. : Making vaccination compulsory, or quasi-compulsory as Germany announced yesterday, remains excluded by Olivier Véran. “There are twice as many unvaccinated Germans as unvaccinated French”, among the eligible public, he justifies.
09:08 : While Olivier Véran was on the air, National Education announced that 4,578 classes were currently closed in France. It is almost half less than last week (8,890), but the count remains significant, while a new protocol has been gradually applied since Monday ended the immediate closure of primary classes from the first positive pupil.
09:08 : Let’s quickly take stock of today’s news:
The second round of the Republicans’ internal vote to nominate their presidential candidate opens at 8 a.m. He will oppose Eric Ciotti to Valérie Pécresse, who received the support of the three eliminated. We compared their two programs.
• Jean Castex announced the holding on Monday of a new Health Defense Council, to “see if there is a need to take further action” faced with the increase in contamination and the arrival of the Omicron variant, of which nine cases have been detected in France.
• The vaccination of the most vulnerable children aged 5 to 11 should begin between mid-December and the end of December, announced the Minister of Health Olivier Véran on franceinfo.
• Cédric Jubillar, indicted for the murder of his wife Delphine in December 2020 and who claims his innocence, will again be questioned by investigators this morning, about the night of the disappearance.
9:04 am : The HAS estimated that 360,000 children would be affected in France if the criteria it suggests are retained. Olivier Véran suggested that the confirmation by the government of the opening of this vaccination would be a formality. For children not being at risk, he explains waiting for another opinion from the HAS. The child-friendly version of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine, which contains one-third of the adult dose, will be available in the EU on December 13.
9:01 am : The vaccination “will undoubtedly be open” of vulnerable children aged 5 to 11, as recommended by the HAS, “between the middle and the end of December”, announces Olivier Véran.
8:50 a.m. : On franceinfo, Olivier Véran remains vague on the possibility of new restrictions being announced at the end of the Health Defense Council which will take place on Monday. It could only be used “information sharing”, assures the minister.
08:46 : The Minister of Health explains that the Pasteur Institute’s models on the rate of the rise in contamination have been verified so far, and that they predict, if nothing changes, that the peak will be reached “at the end of January”. A scenario that can however “totally” change if the pace of the recall campaign picks up and the French “recreate a bit of social distancing”.
08:43 : “The fifth wave linked to the Delta variant is rising fast”, warns Olivier Véran. “In France currently, a patient is admitted to intensive care every ten minutes. (…) We are well beyond the fourth, and we are even reaching the peak of the third wave”, that of last spring.
08:38 : “I asked the labs to sequence positive cases of patients who were diagnosed over a week ago, before the Omicron variant was tracked down in Europe, with viral profiles that looked questionable. had the confirmation of a diagnosis, a sign that this variant has probably already been circulating for several weeks “.
The Minister of Health explains that some of the nine people positive for the Omicron variant in France had been tested before the announcement of the discovery of this variant, which was identified in her after a re-examination of the samples.
08:33 : The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, is invited to the morning of franceinfo. Watch or listen to his interview live.
(Xose Bouzas / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP)
08:28 : Hello @Mathilde Tilly. The decision of the Disciplinary Chamber of the New Aquitaine Order of Physicians will be revealed at 4 p.m. It can freely choose a sanction from a panel which goes as far as deregistration. Recall that Didier Raoult, accused of several breaches of ethics, appeared in early November.
08:28 : Hello Louis. At what time do you think you will have the verdict of the disciplinary chamber of the Order of Physicians of New Aquitaine against Didier Raoult?
08:19 : A study posted online yesterday by South African scientists, which has yet to be peer-reviewed and should therefore be taken with a grain of salt, suggests that the Omicron variant may cause more re-infections in people who already have been contaminated. And therefore that it could better bypass the immunity acquired during a previous infection.
The researchers base this conclusion on the estimate that the risk of reinfection in November in South Africa was three times greater than that observed during waves linked to the Beta and Delta variants. They warn, on the other hand, that their study does not make it possible to distinguish between vaccinated or unvaccinated patients, and therefore does not say anything about the effectiveness of vaccines against the Omicron variant.
8:17 a.m. : Since the revelation of the existence of this new Omicron variant, on November 25, a race has begun to understand whether the mutations it carries affect its dangerousness. Our journalist Vincent Matalon explains how researchers go about unraveling its secrets.
08:11 : “All suspected, possible or confirmed cases of the Omicron variant should observe strict isolation lasting 10 days, regardless of their vaccination status”, reminds the DGS this morning. Suspected cases are those who have traveled to a country at risk, or are in contact with a person who has stayed there; possible cases are contacts of confirmed cases or those in which screening has observed a variant with mutations that may correspond.
08:04 : In a press release, the Directorate General of Health now evokes nine cases of the Omicron variant in France, and specifies in which regions they have been identified: Reunion, Ile-de-France, Grand-Est and Pays de the Loire, as announced yesterday, but also Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
07:16 : Australia has announced that it has observed a case of contamination by the Omicron variant by a man who had not traveled abroad, and was therefore infected on its territory.
07:18 : Let’s start by recalling the main news of the day:
The second round of the Republicans’ internal vote to nominate their presidential candidate opens at 8 a.m. He will oppose Eric Ciotti to Valérie Pécresse, who received the support of the three eliminated. We compared their two programs.
• Jean Castex announced the holding on Monday of a new Health Defense Council, to “see if there is a need to take further action” faced with the increase in contamination and the arrival of the Omicron variant, eight cases of which have been detected in France.
• The National Assembly once again said no yesterday to an individualization (we also speak of “deconjugalization”) of allowance for disabled adults.
• Cédric Jubillar, indicted for the murder of his wife Delphine in December 2020 and who claims his innocence, will again be questioned by investigators this morning, about the night of the disappearance.