The Covid-19 pandemic is not about to end. In its weekly bulletin published on Wednesday January 26, the WHO estimates that the level of risk linked to the Omicron variant remains very high. “More than 21 million new cases have been recorded (in the last seven days), which represents the highest number of weekly cases recorded since the start of the pandemic”, underlines the WHO. Follow our live.
A health defense council this Wednesday. The executive meets this Wednesday morning for a health defense council before the Council of Ministers with the entire government. Government spokesman Gabriel Attal will speak in the early afternoon.
A record of contamination in France. The laboratories recorded 501,635 contaminations in 24 hours in France, a symbolic bar of half a million new cases never reached until then. To smooth out the statistical jolts, however, it is necessary to consider the daily average over seven days, which is stable compared to the previous day with 366,000 cases.
An epidemic that explodes in Peru. The South American country exceeded, on Tuesday January 25, the threshold of three million confirmed cases of Covid-19, or 10% of the population, in the midst of the third wave caused by the Omicron variant. The country has recorded a total of 3,020,756 cases and 204,587 deaths in a country of 33 million people, according to the health ministry.