Covid-19: 900 more patients in French hospitals in one week
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Restrictions are increasing once again in Europe, which is facing a fifth wave. In France, where the government wants to rely on booster doses, stricter measures than those already in force are not planned for the moment.
0By Le Parisien November 19, 2021 at 7:39 a.m., modified on November 19, 2021 at 7:42 p.m.The essential
Relive the events of Friday, November 19
7:40 p.m. This is the end of this live, thank you for having followed. See you tomorrow to continue to follow the news of the Covid-19.
7:30 p.m. The situation is deteriorating in Val-d'Oise. The incidence rate has gone up sharply. To try to contain this new wave, the authorities will increase health checks in restaurants and, above all, try to relaunch the vaccination campaign. Our article to read here.
7:15 p.m. In France, the increase in the number of cases continues at a sustained pace. Health authorities have identified 21,220 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours in France, while 20,366 cases were identified yesterday. On the vaccination side, 333,585 vaccine injections have been carried out in the past 24 hours, including 36,658 first doses, and 197,438 booster doses.
19 hours. A second dose for those who were infected after a first dose. For people infected with Covid-19 after receiving a full vaccination schedule, health authorities recommend an additional booster dose six months after infection, if eligible. "An infection occurring after a complete primary vaccination may be the consequence of insufficient immunity", explains the High Authority for Health (HAS) on Friday in a press release. In France, only 1,349 “serious” vaccine failures have been notified for the moment with the Pfizer vaccine, mainly administered on the territory.
6:45 p.m. Italy records 10,500 new cases. On Friday, Italy reported another 48 Covid-related deaths. The country's health ministry also announced that new infections fell to 10,544 from 10,638 yesterday. Italy has recorded 133,082 Covid-19-related deaths since the outbreak emerged in February 2020, the second-highest toll in Europe after Britain and the ninth-highest in the world. The country has reported 4.9 million cases so far.
6:30 p.m. The epidemic continues to progress in France. According to figures reported by Public Health France, 7,940 people are currently hospitalized due to Covid-19 infection, compared to 7,787 the day before, and 7,046 a week ago. Admissions of coronavirus patients to hospitals today are slightly higher than yesterday's level: Hospitals recorded 563 admissions in 24 hours, compared to 522 the day before, and 362 seven days ago. In total, 1,353 people are being treated for critical care today, compared to 1,333 the day before, and 1,182 on November 12. There have been 129 new entries of these most serious cases in the past 24 hours, compared to 98 a week ago. Unfortunately, 57 new deaths due to the epidemic are to be deplored, just like yesterday. This brings to 118,390 in total the number of people who have died from the coronavirus in France since the start of the epidemic.
6:20 p.m. Why the cold is likely to bring the epidemic back up. The mercury will drop sharply from Sunday. And this is not good news on the Covid-19 front because the dry cold and indoor gatherings favor transmissions. All forecasts to read here.
6:10 p.m. Salary suspended for non-vaccination: the industrial tribunal of Lyon dismisses European law. The industrial tribunal of Lyon, seized by a nurse demanding the maintenance of her salary despite her refusal to be vaccinated, considered that the European law mentioned in her motivations could not be applied to the detriment of the health context. Part-time employee of a health center of the Mutuelle générale de l'éducation nationale (MGEN) in Lyon, this nurse had seen her salary suspended from November 4, under the application of the law of August 5 2021 establishing the vaccination obligation for caregivers and the suspension of their employment contract in the event of refusal.
18 hours. Vaccination: in Gonesse, the galley to obtain the third dose. The regional health agency encourages the French to turn to local medicine for the 3rd dose against Covid-19. The mayor of Gonesse, Jean-Pierre Blazy (PS), considers that this directive cannot apply in his city and calls for the reopening of vaccination centers. Our article to read here.
5:45 p.m. Guadeloupe: dialysis centers warn of a "danger of death" for 800 patients. The dialysis centers of Guadeloupe, plagued by social mobilization causing blockages throughout the island, alerted Friday of a "danger of death" threatening 800 patients. “The situation is very serious for dialysis patients: it is life-threatening,” warned nephrologist Christian Duvic, from the Clinique de Choisy (le Gosier), about the barricades that hinder traffic in Guadeloupe.
“Each of them needs 3 dialyses of 4 to 6 hours per week”, recalls the practitioner, but “people who cannot receive their care are in mortal danger. They risk very quickly developing pulmonary edema or cardiac arrest. We are talking about a 2-day survival, ”said the doctor, who this Friday morning was only able to get to work after mobilizing an ambulance to transport him.
5:30 p.m. The High Authority for Health (HAS) recommends the booster dose for 40-50 year olds. While the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic is experiencing a new rebound in mainland France and a decline in vaccine effectiveness over time is to be expected, “HAS recommends today expanding the scope of eligible populations to a booster dose of vaccination against Covid-19. It thus recommends offering a booster to people aged 40 and over, six months after the primary vaccination, the latest studies suggesting a benefit for this age group, ”she wrote in a press release. Read all the details here.
5:20 p.m. The UK reports 44,242 new cases and 157 deaths. The UK has recorded a further 44,242 Covid cases and 157 deaths within 28 days of testing positive, according to the latest data from the government's coronavirus dashboard. That's less than the 46,807 infections and 199 deaths in the previous 24 hours.
17 hours. Wearing a mask again compulsory in many places in Cantal. To reinforce the effectiveness of barrier measures and reduce the risk of transmission of Covid-19 in gathering places, the prefect of Cantal, Serge Castel, issued a decree on Friday applicable from Monday November 22, 2021 until Monday January 3, 2022 included, making it compulsory to wear a mask for eleven-year-olds in a set of closed places listed by France Bleu.
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4:40 p.m. Bulgaria: the low vaccination rate, "a risk for the EU" according to Thierry Breton. European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, warned Bulgaria, the least vaccinated country in the EU, on Friday, saying that this situation posed "a big risk" for the whole continent. With just 24.2% of its population of 6.9 million fully vaccinated, Bulgaria lags behind a European average of 68%, according to an AFP tally based on official sources. With such a low vaccination rate, "it can become a focus of the pandemic", he warned. For the commissioner, who is responsible for coordinating the supply of the European Union with anti-Covid vaccines, “if we do nothing, we could have a Bulgarian variant”.
4:30 p.m. Germany: unvaccinated, Kimmich will miss two matches. Bayern Munich midfielder Joshua Kimmich has been placed in quarantine for once again being around someone positive for Covid-19, and will not play in the Bundesliga on Friday evening in Augsburg (8:30 p.m.), nor in the Champions League on Tuesday in kyiv, the Bavarian club announced on Friday. Kimmich's choice not to be vaccinated sparks endless debate in Germany. This new quarantine is for him the second in a row, while he is not affected by the coronavirus, which raises the question of his availability for his employer.
4:15 p.m. Spain: wanted Dutch coronavirus-positive tourists. Spanish authorities were on Friday looking for seven Dutch tourists who disappeared after being ordered to observe quarantine because they had tested positive for Covid-19. These tourists were on vacation in Navas del Madrono, in the Extremadura region (west), when one of them fell ill and tested positive, said a spokeswoman for the regional authorities. The six others having also been infected, the whole group was ordered to quarantine but when the authorities visited them on Wednesday, they found... no one in the accommodation of this municipality very close to Portugal where they spent their stay.
4:10 p.m. EMA approves emergency use of Merck's anti-Covid tablets. France has already ordered 50,000 doses of this anti-covid pill from Merck. “Imagine that we had (at the start of the health crisis) an antiviral treatment which reduced the number of serious cases by 50%, imagine the health impact in our country at the heart of the first and second waves, we would have had far fewer deaths and far fewer serious cases,” enthused Olivier Véran. Read more information here.
4:05 p.m. Football: positive for Covid, De Bruyne forfeits against PSG. Manchester City's Belgian midfielder Kevin De Bruyne is "positive for Covid" and will miss matches against Everton in the league on Sunday and Paris SG in the Champions League on Wednesday, coach Pep Guardiola announced on Friday. “Kevin is positive for Covid. He will be in solitary confinement for 10 days,” Guardiola said at a press conference, five days before the home game against PSG, which is decisive for qualifying for the round of 16.
3:55 p.m. “We must speed up the vaccination reminder”, asks Emmanuel Macron. “The countries which decide on partial containment do not have a health pass and are less vaccinated than us. We have already found an equivalent organization with our health pass, ”repeats Emmanuel Macron, traveling in the North. “We must accelerate the vaccination reminder (…) Then it will then be necessary to open it by age group. 80% of the most serious cases in hospital are over 50s. We will have the opinion of the high health authority in the next few hours about the recall for people between 40 and 50 years old, ”continued the President of the Republic. What to remember from his speech can be read here.
3:50 p.m. European Medicines Agency launches review for emergency use of Pfizer's anti-Covid pill. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced on Friday the launch of the review for the emergency use of Pfizer's anti-Covid pill by member states before its authorization in the EU. . "The EMA is starting this review to help national authorities who can decide on its early use for Covid-19, for example in emergency situations," the European regulator said in a statement. This antiviral treatment, which will be marketed under the name Paxlovid, has been shown to be 89% effective against hospitalizations and deaths in clinical trials, if taken quickly.
3:45 p.m. Canada authorizes the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for 5-11 year olds. After Israel and the United States, it is Canada's turn to allow the vaccination of children. It is the third major country to make this decision. In this country, 75.8% of the inhabitants are completely vaccinated.
3:30 p.m. The United States allows a third dose of vaccine for all adults. US health authorities announced on Friday that they had given the green light to a third dose of the Covid vaccine for all adults who were fully vaccinated at least six months ago. The United States Medicines Agency (FDA) has indicated that this emergency use authorization is granted to Pfizer and Moderna. Read more details here.
3:15 p.m. What will Portugal decide? A meeting is due to start in an hour with politicians and public health experts in Lisbon. The country has recorded a 51% increase in the number of infections in one week with 1,800 cases per day. However, the country has 87% of its inhabitants fully vaccinated.
3:05 p.m. Wearing a mask reduces the incidence of Covid-19 by 53%. According to a meta-analysis, a study that consists of peeling and cross-checking several studies, published yesterday in the medical journal The BMJ, social distancing and hand washing are also effective in reducing the spread of the virus. Small flat: most of the studies included in the meta-analysis date from before the massive vaccination against Covid.
2:57 p.m. Inflation also affects Americans. Thanksgiving dinner, a well-respected tradition of American families, will cost an average of 14%, the highest annual increase in 31 years, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. Turkey, cranberries, buns and other staples… the Farm Bureau, which represents American farmers and the wider agriculture industry, pointed out that inflation and supply chain disruptions have driven the average cost a Thanksgiving dinner for 10 people at 53.31 dollars (47.22 euros), against 46.90 dollars (41.54 euros) in 2020, its lowest level for 10 years.
2:45 p.m. The Davis Cup finals maintained despite the confinement in Austria. “Austrian organizers are currently meeting with local authorities to find out how the restrictions may affect the event,” said a spokesperson for organizer Kosmos Tennis. "As things stand, however, we can confirm that the event will take place."
Innsbruck's Olympiaworld is hosting the Groups C and F matches, starting with Thursday's clash between France and the Czech Republic. It will also host a quarter-final.
2:35 p.m. Thank you, that's enough. Air Canada announced on Friday that it no longer needs financial assistance from the Canadian government, as air traffic gradually resumes. In April, the Canadian government announced a support program that gave the airline access to interest-bearing loans of 5.38 billion Canadian dollars (3.77 billion euros). But the company says it did not use three-quarters of this sum thanks to financing operations that enabled it to generate significant cash.
2:25 p.m. Pfizer and Moderna could deliver a 3rd dose to the USA for everyone. The two laboratories announce that the American Food and Drug Administration has authorized a booster vaccine to be made with their serums to all adults from the age of 18. This announcement does not presume the decision of the American authorities to launch a campaign of 3rd injection for all.
2:12 p.m. In Hungary. 11,289 new contaminations were detected in 24 hours, the highest level since the start of the pandemic. The Orbán government has decided to impose new restrictions: from tomorrow, masks are mandatory in all enclosed spaces, except offices and gyms. Similarly, you will need a health pass to attend a public event bringing together more than 500 people.
14 hours. Russia has been breaking death records for three days. Russian authorities report that 1,254 people lost their lives in 24 hours, more than 1,251 on Thursday and 1,247 on Wednesday.
1:57 p.m. Global balance sheet. The pandemic has killed at least 5,130,627 people worldwide since the end of December 2019. Among the hardest hit countries, Peru is still the one with the highest death toll in relation to its population, with 609 deaths per year. 100,000 inhabitants. Next come European countries: Bulgaria (386), Bosnia (371), Montenegro (355), North Macedonia (355), Hungary (338) and the Czech Republic (297).
1:55 p.m. Just Thursday. In 24 hours, the Covid caused 8,265 new deaths. The countries with the most new deaths in their latest reports are the United States with 1,279 new deaths, Russia (1,254) and Ukraine (725).
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1:47 p.m. The prevalence rate has fallen in England. According to Britain's Office for National Statistics, the prevalence fell to 1 in 65 people between November 8 and 13, after reaching 1 in 60 the previous week. England experienced a peak at the end of October, before the school holidays.
1:35 p.m. Disquiet in Ireland. "No one should have any doubts about the seriousness" of the health situation, said Northern Ireland's chief medical officer, Sir Michael McBride, on the BBC. “If we fail to get this virus under control… We risk having our hospital system overwhelmed by mid-December,” he said.
1:30 p.m. Bavaria cancels Christmas markets. Due to the Covid outbreak, the German region has followed in the footsteps of its capital Munich, canceling all Christmas markets. “The situation is very, very serious and complicated,” Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder told a press conference. He said bars and nightclubs will also be closed in places where infection rates are particularly high.
1:20 p.m. New rules in force in Ireland. As of yesterday, bars, restaurants and nightclubs close at midnight, for employees, which means customers have to leave earlier. This same schedule must be respected for receptions, especially weddings, and office parties. The health pass is extended to cinemas and theaters. Teleworking is recommended “unless necessary” and people who are in close contact with a confirmed case of Covid are also advised to limit their travel for five days.
13 hours. In Germany, the head of health monitoring is worried. Lothar Wieler, president of the Robert Koch Institute, said the restrictions on the unvaccinated decided in Germany were "no longer sufficient" to break the new wave of infections. The new contaminations in 24 hours have, this Friday again, exceeded 50,000. "We must pull the emergency brake now", he hammered, advocating that people stay "if possible at home" to respond to "national emergency".
In 24 hours, Germany recorded 52,970 new contaminations and 201 deaths.
12:30 p.m. Belgium anticipates a situation in intensive care similar to the first wave. According to interfederal Covid spokespersons, the number of patients in intensive care due to the coronavirus could reach a level similar to that recorded during the first wave in mid-December. 1,200 people could be in intensive care in hospitals within a month against 568 currently.
12:25 p.m. The Pfizer vaccine has reportedly received Canadian approval for use in children aged 5 to 11. The Pfizer vaccine is pending Canadian approval for use in children between the ages of five and 11, according to media reports. About 3 million doses of the vaccine are expected to be delivered in the coming days, and public authorities have said vaccination could begin before the end of the month, according to the Toronto Star.
12:10 p.m. The ECB does not want to intervene on the surge in inflation. Christine Lagarde, the president of the European Central Bank, estimated that inflation in the eurozone would gradually dissipate and that the ECB should therefore not tighten its monetary policy as this would risk jeopardizing the economic recovery. Consumer price inflation in the zone reached 4.1% year on year in October, mainly due to the surge in energy prices, and should remain above the target for next year. 2% set by the ECB.
12 hours. India injected 1.15 billion vaccines. 7,294,864 doses of vaccine have been inoculated in India in the past 24 hours. This brought, this morning at 7 am, the total of the Indian vaccination campaign to 1,152,349,358 doses.
11:45 a.m. Germany in the footsteps of Austria? German Health Minister Jens Spahn has hinted that Germany may follow Austria in announcing a full lockdown, to stem the fifth wave of Covid. “We are now in a situation (…) where we cannot rule anything out,” he said.
11:30 a.m. Compulsory vaccination, what precedents? Austria has announced that vaccination against Covid will become compulsory on February 1, the time to pass the law which will allow it. To date, only Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, two authoritarian states, and the Vatican, have made this decision. New Caledonia has also decided to impose vaccination from the end of December.
11:20 a.m. Pfizer, the anti-Covid pill and the EU. The American laboratory Pfizer will file this Friday an authorization request for Paxlovid, its anti-Covid pill, with the European Union, according to the German weekly Wirtschaftswoche, citing sources close to the European Medicines Agency (EMA). ) and the company. Pfizer, which is already marketing a vaccine against the virus in collaboration with BioNTech, filed a similar request with the US Medicines Agency earlier this week.
Yesterday, the US government ordered 10 million of these treatments from Pfizer, for $5.29 billion, subject to the green light from health authorities.
11:10 a.m. 200 additional police sent to Guadeloupe. "Strongly condemning the violence that has taken place in recent hours in Guadeloupe", Gérald Darmanin and Sébastien Lecornu signed a joint declaration. Covid protocols are sparking angry reactions in the archipelago, some violent, with roads blocked by protesters (read below at 6:30 a.m.).
11:00. The Austrian Chancellor deplores the too low vaccination. “Despite months of persuasion, we have not succeeded in convincing enough people to get vaccinated,” said Alexander Schallenberg, announcing a twenty-day confinement for all and compulsory vaccination. He highlighted the current overload of intensive care units. “Sustainably increasing the vaccination rate is the only way out of this vicious circle,” he said. Of the 8.9 million inhabitants, 66% are vaccinated.
10:50 a.m. Daily report in India. In 24 hours, the health authorities, who test extremely little with regard to the Indian population, counted 11,106 new contaminations. 470 of the Covid are to be deplored.
10:45 a.m. What Austria announced.
10:27 a.m. Austria announces containment of its population, including vaccinated. Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg is announcing it. Since Monday, unvaccinated Austrians were already confined. According to the Austrian press, the lockdown should start on Monday and last ten days, with the possibility of extending it for another ten days, before returning to confinement of unvaccinated people.
The Chancellor also announces compulsory vaccination from 1 February.
10:20 a.m. Cuba wants to export its vaccines. The Cuban government is ready to export its Covid-19 vaccines to member states of the Eurasian Economic Union and locate its production there, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz has said. "I reaffirm that we are ready to share our modest experience in the fight against the coronavirus and to cooperate in the production and supply of these products to the States" of the UEE, the Prime Minister said in his speech online at the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council.
10 hours. Optimize the vaccination of pregnant women. According to an Israeli study, newborns are better protected against Covid if their mothers are vaccinated between the 27th and 31st week of their pregnancy. The antibody levels of newborns whose mothers were vaccinated later were 40% lower than those of newborns whose mothers were vaccinated within this time frame. The icing on the cake: the antibody level of newborns whose mothers were vaccinated in the correct window was, when tested, twice as high as that of the mothers themselves.
9:45 a.m. In Guyana, restrictions eased. The confinement in force every weekend for three months in Guyana has been lifted, announced the prefect Thierry Queffelec, and the curfew is reduced from 10 p.m. (and not 7 p.m.) to 5 a.m. In the orange zone where the virus is actively circulating, which has 60% of the population, restaurants and cultural and sports activities benefit from an exemption until 11:30 p.m.
9:30 a.m. The Philippines will “soon” reopen its borders to foreign tourists. A working group in charge of the fight against Covid-19 within the government has "approved in principle" the request of the Ministry of Tourism to authorize entry into the territory to vaccinated travelers from countries where the rate of contamination is low, said Tourism Minister Berna Puyat. When ? " Soon ".
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9:20 a.m. The number of classes closed at the highest since the start of the school year in September. 4,048 classes are closed this Thursday, compared to 1,246 classes on October 22, before the All Saints holidays. Since the start of the school year, the peak was observed on September 16, with 3,300 classes closed.
Except in ten departments, the protocol provides that in elementary, where children are not old enough to be vaccinated, classes close as soon as a case is reported within it.
9:05 a.m. Explosion of the number of cases in the school environment. With the resumption of classes last week, the number of contaminations in the school environment increased from 563 to 5,477 in one week, a tenfold increase. The people concerned are both students and teachers or staff. The percentage of children under 12 affected is slightly down. As our journalist Nicolas Berrod points out about these new infected, “this says nothing about the conditions under which they were infected, but it illustrates the fact that the school environment is an important place of mixing”.
8:50 a.m. More and more unvaccinated people do not want to be tested. According to figures from the public health agency France, 22% of unvaccinated people would refuse to be tested against 15% in September. 65% (a declining total) would go to the doctor to get a prescription to get tested for free.
8:40 a.m. “We have supported the cultural sector at arm's length. Roselyne Bachelot has defended the government 's policy on culture since the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic. “We are the country which has devoted the most public money to safeguarding its cultural environment with 14 billion euros. We have no cultural disaster. We have almost no bankruptcy filing. In our country, no cinema has closed. We have supported the cultural sector at arm's length. »
8:38. In the cinema, a "slightly soft recovery" Roselyne Bachelot believes that "the recovery is a little soft" in the cinema. “Since the introduction of the health pass, attendance has dropped by 20%. Moreover, “we observe that auteur films have trouble finding their audience. Is it structural because there are fundamental changes in French practices or is it the tail end of the crisis? she wonders.
8:35 a.m. In the field of culture, “measures can be “reinforced”. The Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot, believes that "we have the cards in hand to be resilient in this epidemic: vaccination and the health pass". On LCI, she adds that “there is always the possibility of reinforcing a certain number of measures such as the wearing of a mask, which remains at the discretion of the owners of the rooms. France is able to overcome this new wave”.
8:20 a.m. The hospital is “not overwhelmed”, but… Frédéric Valletoux, president of the Fédération Hospitalière de France and mayor of Fontainebleau (Seine-et-Marne), ensures that “the (hospital) services are not overwhelmed”. But he recalls that “there is a gap between contamination and hospital lines”. Above all, he insists, when questioned on Sud radio, on the fact that “the hospital staff are exhausted. The hospital had already tackled the Covid-19 crisis in a tense situation with 30% of doctor's posts vacant. 6% of the beds are closed because we cannot put the caregivers around”. In addition, he affirms that “the suspended caregivers are on the margin with 95-97% of vaccinated”.
7:55 a.m. Covid-19 also on the rise in southern Europe. The resumption of the epidemic is spreading to southern Europe. In Italy, Spain and Portugal, contaminations have been on the rise for two weeks, as our journalist points out. In these countries with very high vaccination coverage, the curve of deaths linked to Covid-19 increases slightly.
7:45 a.m. No compulsory telecommuting. While Belgium, in particular, reimposes teleworking when possible, the Minister of Labor, Élisabeth Borne, ensures that such a measure is not planned for the moment in France. « Ça n'est pas envisagé aujourd'hui car la situation n'est pas la même qu'il y a un an. 90 % des adultes sont vaccinés. Il y a aussi un protocole strict en entreprise. Mais il y a eu un relâchement sur le port du masque ; il faut se remobiliser sur les gestes barrière. Les contrôles de l'inspection du travail seront renforcés », dit-elle sur RMC info.
7:40 a.m. Taux de chômage quasi stable au troisième trimestre. Le taux de chômage est resté quasi stable au troisième trimestre 2021 (+ 0,1 point par rapport au trimestre précédent) pour s'établir à 8,1 % de la population active en France (hors Mayotte), selon les chiffres de l'Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques). C'est moins bien que ce qu'avait prévu l'organisme dans sa dernière note de conjoncture, début octobre, anticipant un taux de chômage à 7,6 % au troisième trimestre.
7:35 a.m. Demain, un plan pour le tourisme. Le Premier ministre, Jean Castex, annonce demain un plan de reconquête du tourisme, secteur très éprouvé par la pandémie. Il vise à renforcer la place de la France comme première destination touristique mondiale. Parmi les axes annoncés : améliorer la formation et l'attractivité des métiers du secteur, valoriser le patrimoine, assurer la montée en gamme de l'offre, aider au développement d'infrastructures et des transports, encourager l'innovation et la numérisation.
7:20 a.m. Générosité en hausse. Les dons déclarés aux impôts en 2020 et le nombre de donateurs pendant la pandémie ont augmenté, avec un « effort de générosité » des jeunes générations. Selon la 26e enquête réalisée par le réseau d'experts Recherches et Solidarité et intitulée cette année « la générosité des Français face au Covid », « après la baisse de l'année 2018 et le léger rebond en 2019 (2,4 %), les montants (des dons) de l'année 2020 augmentent de 7,1 %, presque autant qu'en 2014 (7,2 %) ».
Le nombre de foyers déclarant un don, « en constante régression tout au long de la période 2013-2019 », est en hausse de 3,4 % en 2020. « Le don moyen annuel déclaré est passé de 404 euros en 2013 à 570 euros en 2020. Le don moyen est d'autant plus élevé que les donateurs sont avancés en âge (665 euros chez les plus de 70 ans, 347 euros chez les moins de 30 ans). »
7 hours. Nouvelle date pour le premier cas. Le premier cas de Covid-19 identifié dans la ville chinoise de Wuhan, et notamment présenté comme tel par un rapport de l'Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS), datait en réalité de quelques jours plus tard, selon l'article d'un éminent scientifique publié jeudi dans la prestigieuse revue Science. Au lieu d'être un homme ne s'étant jamais rendu au marché d'animaux de la ville, le statut de premier cas connu de Covid-19 revient donc à une vendeuse ayant travaillé dans ce marché, selon le virologue Michael Worobey. Pour lui, cette donnée, ainsi que l'analyse des tout premiers cas de Covid-19 dans la ville, font clairement pencher la balance vers une origine animale du virus.
6h45. Plan de relance au Japon. Le Japon s'apprête à adopter un plan de relance massif d'un montant record de 56 000 milliards de yens (430 milliards d'euros) pour donner un coup de fouet à la reprise économique de la troisième économie mondiale, annonce le Premier ministre, Fumio Kishida. Ce plan, qui devrait être approuvé par le gouvernement dans la journée, « est suffisant pour rassurer la population japonaise et lui redonner espoir », dit-il. Ce plan de relance, le premier au Japon depuis fin 2020 et le troisième depuis l'apparition de la pandémie, est constitué à 70 % de dépenses budgétaires, d'investissements et de prêts aux entreprises.
6:30 a.m. Routes bloquées en Guadeloupe. La Guadeloupe a continué jeudi à voir ses routes, tout comme l'accès au centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU), bloqués par des manifestants lors du quatrième jour d'une mobilisation lancée par un collectif d'organisations syndicales et citoyennes pour protester contre le passe sanitaire et l'obligation vaccinale des soignants. Plusieurs incidents ont été signalés, notamment aux abords du CHU où, dès 6 heures (11 heures à Paris), un barrage de pneus avait été érigé par des manifestants, « la plupart cagoulés ».
6:20 a.m. Deux régions confinées en Autriche. Le confinement des non vaccinées n'aura pas duré longtemps en Autriche. Dans les régions de Salzbourg et de Haute-Autriche, toutes les personnes seront confinées à partir de lundi, sans distinction de statut. Les autorités locales jugent cette mesure plus efficace. More details in our article.
6:10 a.m. Pas de nouvelles restrictions pour le moment. Le président de la République, Emmanuel Macron, considère dans un entretien à La Voix du Nord que le passe sanitaire protège suffisamment les Français. Il n'envisage pas, pour le moment, de prendre de mesures supplémentaires face à la cinquième vague, comme un confinement des non vaccinés par exemple. « Les pays qui confinent les non vaccinés sont ceux qui n'ont pas mis en place le passe. Cette mesure n'est donc pas nécessaire en France. » Plus de détails dans notre article.
6 hours. Bonjour à tous. Bienvenue dans ce direct consacré à la pandémie de Covid-19.
Dans la rubrique SantéCovid-19 en France : 178 nouveaux décès et plus de 330000 cas enregistrés en 24 heuresCovid-19 : mobilisation en baisse contre le passe vaccinal, 30000 dans toute la France selon le gouvernementAbonnésCovid-19 : le Québec, cet enfer pour les non vaccinés Les plus lus, SociétéPasse vaccinal : à partir du 15 février, le certificat de rétablissement lui aussi ne sera valable que 4 mois1Covid-19 : «Ce soir, vous serez plus de 35 millions à avoir fait votre rappel vaccinal», indique Véran 2Covid-19 : comment détecter les cas de PIMS, les formes graves chez l'enfant ?3Covid-19 en France : 178 nouveaux décès et plus de 330000 cas enregistrés en 24 heures4«Omicron a changé la donne» : positifs au Covid, ils ne s'isolent même plus5Journal du jour30 janvier 2022Lire le journal
