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1:51 p.m. : Hello @Telma. The six children who received on Saturday “by mistake” a double dose of vaccine at Le Mans, are in a “reassuring state”, ensured the territorial direction of the ARS. She specifies: “A child still has a fever, only a fever”, paracetamol him “was administered” and a second child has a “little pain in the arm”. A third child had “fatigue and pain in the arm, but these symptoms disappeared” this morning. The other three children did not have symptoms, she added.
13:49 : Hello, you speak of 6 children and you give news of 5, is it happening for the 6th? Thank you
13:48 : The World Economic Forum, which was to meet from January 17 to 21 in Davos, Switzerland, “is reported” due to the spread of the Omicron variant, organizers said.
13:37 : “It is a question of extending the vaccination obligation via the pass to other sectors but it will not be a general obligation, otherwise it is a gas factory”, warned the same source, who emphasizes that the objective is mainly to “strengthen the pressure on the unvaccinated”. For its part, the Elysee ensures that a general obligation is not resolved and awaits the results of the consultations in progress with the unions.
13:35 : “The principle of an obligation of the health pass in business will be added during the examination of the law” transforming the health pass into a vacinal pass, scheduled to be examined in January at the National Assembly, France Televisions learned from a source in the majority.
13:33 : In an interview with Release, epidemiologist Antoine Flahaut estimates that the Omicron variant will be dominant in Europe before the end of the year. “We know that Omicron responds poorly to certain hospital treatments, such as certain monoclonal antibodies, which were believed to reduce severe forms of the disease.”, he adds.
13:35 : Hello @Email. For the moment, one of the great unknowns remains the dangerousness of Omicron, its ability to generate or not more severe forms of Covid-19. Omicron was detected recently and it still takes some time for experts to clinically determine the severity of the cases. On the other hand, the variant seems to spread faster than the Delta variant, underlines the WHO.
1:09 p.m. : Hello FI, the Omicron variant is how many times more contagious than the “original” covid? Thank you
12:19 : Six children mistakenly received a double dose of vaccine in a center in Le Mans. Five children show no symptoms, but the families have been alerted by the Pays de la Loire regional health agency, reports France 3.
12h00 : It is noon. We take stock of the news:
Left-wing candidate Gabriel Boric won the second round of the presidential election in Chile, a landslide victory over his far-right opponent José Antonio Kast, who officially admitted defeat.
PCR, antigen, saliva, self-test … How reliable are the Covid-19 screening tests (and which one to choose)? We take stock before the holidays.
A complaint for “manslaughter and failure to provide assistance” was filed against the maritime prefect of the Channel after the shipwreck which claimed the lives of at least 27 migrants at the end of November.
Cruel disillusionment for the French handball players, who collapsed in the second half in the World Cup final against Norway (22-29).
11:56 a.m. : “It clearly looks like an obligation to vaccinate and anything that looks like an obligation to vaccinate poses an ethical problem for me.”
Julien Bayou, national secretary of Europe Ecology Les Verts (EELV), reacted to the will of the executive to extend the health pass to companies by imposing it on all employees. “We are on the line of the WHO, the World Health Organization, to convince rather than to coerce”, he recalled, believing that to constrain is “counter productive”.
11:39 a.m. : “All reasonable means must be taken“to encourage refractory people to be vaccinated against Covid-19, launches the president of the Vaccine Strategy Orientation Council (COSV) this morning on France Inter. The immunologist reacts to the government’s desire to transform the health pass into vaccine pass.
11:14 : Hello @ gimli1116. For now, “only people aged 12 to 17 with comorbidities or being immunocompromised are eligible for the vaccination booster”, specifies the general directorate of health to West France. “The data currently available to us show more stable protection against infection in those under 18 than in adults “, she explains. But that could change with the Omicron variant.
11:06 : Hello and thank you for your work. Do you know if it is planned to open the 3rd dose to over 12s because it does not seem consistent to have asked them to be vaccinated and not to continue to protect them against Omicron?
10:50 a.m. : “We prefer – and this is what we are going to tell the Minister this morning – to strengthen barrier gestures, to encourage more vaccination, rather than the introduction of this vaccination pass.”
“We are opposed to it because it corresponds to a vaccination obligation”, declared the secretary general of the CGT Philippe Martinez this morning on franceinfo, while the government plans to make the health pass compulsory to go to work.
10:30 : Hello . You can find the number of hospitalizations in our epidemic dashboard.
10:30 : Hello. Would you have a graph showing the number of hospitalizations since the start of the covid? thank you
09:59 : No children on the knees, visors and strolling outside … Santa Claus has resumed the activities in the markets and in the shopping centers during the month of December. By trying, as best they can, to respect barrier gestures as much as possible.
09:33 : PCR, antigen, saliva, self-test … How reliable are the coronavirus screening tests (and which one to choose)? Our responses.
09:28 : It is 9 o’clock. We take stock of the news:
Left-wing candidate Gabriel Boric won the second round of the presidential election in Chile, a landslide victory over his far-right opponent José Antonio Kast, who officially admitted defeat.
PCR, antigen, saliva, self-test … How reliable are the Covid-19 screening tests (and which one to choose)? We take stock before the holidays.
A complaint for “manslaughter and failure to provide assistance” was filed against the maritime prefect of the Channel after the shipwreck which claimed the lives of at least 27 migrants at the end of November.
Cruel disillusionment for the French handball players, who collapsed in the second half in the World Cup final against Norway (22-29).
09:25 : The bill providing for the transformation of the health pass into a vaccine pass will be examined in the Senate on January 14, says the chairman of the Senate Law Commission, provided that the text passes the course of the National Assembly beforehand.
08:34 : Hello @michmich. For now, the only measure announced on this subject concerns the vaccine booster. This third dose “will be possible as soon as we have passed the period of 4 months compared to the previous injection and no more than 5 months”, announced the Prime Minister on Friday.
08:33 : Hello. I heard that the government intends to reduce the maximum period of vaccination between 2nd and 3rd dose to 6 months instead of 7. Is this true?
07:59 : “The first and preliminary data from the United Kingdom pointed to an efficacy (of the Covid-19 vaccine) of around 70% after the third dose and around 20% to 40% after the second dose “, facing the Omicron variant.
In an interview with World, the CEO of BioNTech remains confident but says the vaccine will not stop the Covid-19 pandemic on its own. The Delta variant infects vaccinated people, and Omicron will do so more.
07:44 : The Omicron variant “unleashed” across the world, warns eminent American scientist Anthony Fauci, White House adviser on the health crisis.
07:38 : Soon a new vaccine in Europe? The European regulator is today pronouncing on the request for authorization of the vaccine against the Covid of Novavax, using a more traditional technology than those used for the vaccines already authorized, which could reduce the skepticism among the unvaccinated, according to the American firm.
07:43 : It is 6 o’clock. We take a first look at the news:
Left-wing candidate Gabriel Boric won the second round of the presidential election in Chile, a landslide victory over his far-right opponent José Antonio Kast, who officially admitted defeat.
Japanese billionaire, accompanied by his assistant and a Russian cosmonaut, land after spending 12 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS), where they filmed daily life in space videos.
The executive hopes the adoption of the vaccine pass by the end of January, according to government spokesman Gabriel Attal. And this as the numbers continue to climb under the push of the Omicron variant, in intensive care as in the number of daily cases.
Cruel disillusionment for the French handball players, who collapsed in the second half in the World Cup final against Norway (22-29).