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12h00 : It is noon. We take stock of the news:
Left 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 La Manche after the shipwreck which cost the lives of at least 27 migrants at the end of November.
Cruel disillusion for 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 at the will of the executive extend the health pass to businesses 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, spear this morning the president of the Vaccine Strategy Orientation Council (COSV) on France Inter. The immunologist reacts to the government’s desire to transform the health pass in vaccination 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 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 La Manche after the shipwreck which cost the lives of at least 27 migrants at the end of November.
Cruel disillusion for 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 decides today on the authorization request of the Novavax Covid vaccine, using a more traditional technology than those used for already authorized vaccines, which could reduce 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 spokesperson Gabriel Attal. And this while numbers continue to climb under the push of the Omicron variant, in intensive care as in number of daily cases.
Cruel disillusion for French handball players, who collapsed in the second half in the World Cup final against Norway (22-29).