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11:48 a.m. : Hello @Email. In fact, more than 42,000 appointments for a first injection were made on the Doctolib platform this weekend. A figure in clear increase compared to the previous week, specifies France Inter.
11:48 a.m. : Hello, did the announcements of Friday, to transform the health pass into a vaccine, boost the appointment of first-time vaccinated and or recalled or not at all?
11:37 : Today we will reach 20 million recalls. Thank you to all those who, mobilized like never before, allow us to protect ourselves against the delta and omicron variants. We continue, we amplify, we will get there, together!
11:37 : A new course for vaccination. The bar of 20 million booster doses must be reached today, announces the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran.
11:27 a.m. : The government must also decide whether or not to include the corporate health pass in the text on the vaccination pass after meeting with local elected officials and parliamentary groups.
11:32 : The Prime Minister today received representatives of local elected officials and the presidents of parliamentary groups to “see with them how can we move forward as quickly as possible”, with a view to entering into force “fast” of the vaccination pass, had specified Gabriel Attal.
11:34 : Jean Castex announced to local elected officials that the draft law on the vaccine pass could be brought forward and presented to the Council of Ministers as early as next week and not on January 5, according to participants at the meeting at France Télévisions. This is still a hypothesis, specifies Matignon.
11:14 : Hello @Mathieu. The term “booster dose” is preferred because this injection is not always the third. This is particularly the case for people who have already recovered from the disease and who only have a second dose as a reminder, for example.
11:08 : Hello mister careful why the government prefers to say booster instead of 3 rd dose?
10h31 : The large Chinese city of Xi’an, in the north of the country, known for its army buried in terracotta, has started screening all of its 13 million inhabitants after the detection of around 40 cases of Covid -19.
10:20 a.m. : “It is likely that Omicron is already the majority in Ile-de-France, especially in Paris.”
Based on his tool which follows the evolution of the Covid-19 epidemic in France, Guillaume Rozier believes that “up to 9% of contaminations can be due to the Omicron variant in France”. He “suspicious” Also “very strongly that Omicron is developing very quickly in 20-30 year olds”.
09:58 : “Wave 6 is going to be a big leap into the unknown.”
Frédéric Adnet, professor of emergency medicine and head of the emergency department at the Avicenne hospital in Bobigny and the Samu in Seine-Saint-Denis, takes stock of the hospitals, the lack of beds, the nursing staff and Omicron.
09:25 : “We are entering a phase of great turbulence. (…) If we see that there is a very strong resumption of the epidemic linked to the #Omicron variant, we will go further.”
Government spokesman Gabriel Attal says “the Omicron variant reshuffles the cards“, this morning, on France 2.
09:26 : The High Authority for Health gave the green light to the vaccination of 5-11 year olds yesterday, giving priority to secondary school students. In Lyon as in Marseille, the first concerned and their parents are not necessarily enthusiastic. Testimonials.
9:10 a.m. : It is 9 o’clock. We make a new point on the news of the day:
The hostage-taking in the 12th arrondissement of Paris is over. The hostage taker was arrested. “There are no injuries”, announces Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior.
• The Omicron variant is now largely in the majority in the United States, where President Joe Biden is due to announce new restrictions today.
• The High Authority for Health (HAS) has declared itself in favor of the vaccination of children from 5 to 11 years old. On the other hand, she does not wish to return it “payable or obligatory”. For its part, the European Medicines Agency declared itself in favor of the request for authorization of the vaccine against Covid-19 from the American laboratory Novavax.
08:13 : People with an immune deficiency in Brazil will be able to receive a fourth dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, four months after the third, the Ministry of Health announced yesterday.
07:23 : In Germany, sporting events, such as Bundesliga football matches, will take place “without spectators” from December 28 and until further notice, as well as cultural events and concerts, according to a second amended text broadcast in the evening. Discos and dance clubs will be closed.
07:17 : From December 28, in Germany, people vaccinated or cured will not be able to welcome at home more than 10 guests and provided that they are all immunized, according to the text. Non-vaccinated people are only allowed to invite a maximum of two people from one household.
07:17 : In Germany, the government is preparing to tighten health restrictions on the New Year, according to a project consulted yesterday by AFP and which is still to be discussed today during a crisis meeting between the government and representatives of the 16 German regions, followed by a press conference by Olaf Scholz.
07:28 : Omicron has (already) invaded the United States. The variant is now largely the majority in the country. It is in this context that Joe Biden must announce news “measures” aiming to “increase access to screening”, according to his spokesperson, Jen Psaki. The president will insist on “the risks run by unvaccinated individuals”, but nothing “confinement of the country” is not expected, she said.
06:09 : The Peruvian Congress announced yesterday that only deputies and employees who have received at least two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine will be able to access the headquarters in order to limit infections in the face of the arrival of the first cases of the Omicron variant in the country.