COVID. The 5th wave “is approaching the peak of the 2nd wave”, Gabriel Attal alerted this Friday, December 10. In response to the outbreak of Covid-19 in France, the executive wants to further accelerate the vaccine booster campaign, in particular by proposing the addition of “8 million slots by the beginning of January”.
4:45 PM – How much does the booster reduce the risk of hospitalization?
Guillaume Rozier, data scientist and founder of CovidTracker, detailed in a Twitter post, infographic based on data from DREES, to what extent the booster dose of the anti-Covid vaccination reduced the risk of hospitalization. People over 80 are 29 times less likely to be hospitalized as a result of Covid than an unvaccinated person of the same age, and seven times less than a non-booster vaccine of the same age. People between 60 and 79 years of age who have had their booster inoculated are 23 times less likely to be hospitalized than unvaccinated people, and three times less than 60-79 year olds with a full vaccination schedule without a booster . Finally, 40-59 year olds are 21 times less likely to be hospitalized than unvaccinated people and twice less than those vaccinated without a booster.
Reduction of the risk of hospitalization linked to the booster (3rd dose) compared to non-vaccination • compared to the full regimen:
+ 80 years: 29 times • 7 times
60-79 years: 23 times • 3 times
40-59 years: 21 times • 2 times pic.twitter.com/VAliRy1r2d– GRZ (@GuillaumeRozier) December 10, 2021
15:45 – How many regions have already applied their white plan?
With the Haute-de-France, Île-de-France, Occitanie, Pays de la Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Corsica and Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur have activated their plan region-wide white.
3:30 p.m. – The white plan extended to the entire Hauts-de-France region
This Friday, December 10, the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Hauts-de-France announced the extension of the “white plan” to the entire region. It had already been activated in several areas of the constituency.
15:29 – 116 hospital deaths each day
Guillaume Rozier, data scientist and founder of CovidTracker, said in a tweet that were counted 116 hospital deaths per day, “against more than 400 at the peak of November 2020”, he compares. In addition, he notes that 2,461 Covid patients are currently in critical care: they were 6,000 at the peak of last spring.
3:15 pm – The peak of the 5th wave on December 15th?
The director of the Institute of Global Health in Geneva (Switzerland) Antoine Flahault, guest of LCI a few days ago, told the continuous news channel that, for him, to see the peak of the 5th wave arrive around of December 15, “or within a few days”, “remains possible” and “plausible”. Several indicators lead him to make this analysis of the health situation in France. First, the fact that the R (the number of people infected by 1 patient: above R = 1, the epidemic is progressing) was 1.3 at the end of last week against 1.17 now, indicates that , if the epidemic is still progressing, its increase is less rapid. In addition, if, Thursday, December 9, 17% more people tested positive compared to the previous week, this increase was quite relative: the day before, Wednesday 8, the increase over one week was 24% and, at the beginning last week, by more than 50%. For Antoine Flahault, this means that the highest level of the wave could be reached in the coming days: “Before its highest level, the curve will round off,” he explained.
The risk ? That the number of cases stabilizes at a very high level and that France experiences a plateau, as in the United Kingdom, where “the R has remained around 1 since mid-August”. For the epidemiologist, the only way to avoid such a scenario would be to put in place “strong measures”
14:49 – Reinforcement of sanitary pass controls in stations
In a context where the stations will brew several thousand travelers every day, with the approach of the end-of-year holidays, the SNCF has announced that the station checks of the sanitary pass will multiply. They should eventually touch one in three trains.
14:44 – Alençon (Orne): the mask back outdoors
In turn, many cities are once again making the wearing of masks compulsory in certain open places where gatherings are frequent. It is, this Friday, October 10, the turn of the city center of Alençon (Orne), to pass the course.
12:50 – More than 3,200 classes are closed
The Minister of National Education announces this Friday, December 10 that, yesterday at 1 p.m., 45 school structures (out of 59,650) and 3,208 classes (out of 527,200) were closed. In several cases, the academies see, on their territory, more than 200 closed classes: 311 in the academy of Lyon, 276 in Nantes, 251 in Versailles, 209 in Bordeaux, 204 in Toulouse or even 202 in Grenoble.
12:34 – Olivier Véran insists that the Moderna vaccine is “identical” to that of Pfizer for those over 30 years old
Olivier Véran regretted, this Friday, December 10, that, of the “27 ministers of health gathered” during the European Council of Health ministers on Tuesday, there is only “one country which arises the Moderna question: it’s France “. And to insist: Pfizer and Moderna “have the same mechanism, they are messenger RNA vaccines”. Except for those under 30, one or the other of the vaccines are “identical”.
12:22 – “More than 710,000 vaccine recalls were made this Thursday” supports Olivier Véran
The Minister of Health and Solidarity Olivier Véran welcomed this Friday, December 10, the fact that “more than 710,000 vaccine booster shots were carried out on Thursday [9 décembre]”.
12:10 – Oliver Véran wants “20 million French people to have received their booster dose by Christmas”
Traveling to a pharmacy in the North, Olivier Véran confided his objectives in terms of recalling the vaccination against Covid-19. The Minister of Health said he wanted “20 million French people to have received their booster dose by Christmas, not by the end of the year”. According to him, this wish is quite achievable: “We are nearly 90% of people aged 65 and over eligible for the recall who are up to date […] even before the date of December 15 which concerns them “, welcomed Olivier Véran, for whom” the current dynamic allows […] to hope “to reach such a figure.
12:06 – New variant detected in Marseille
The Marseille University Hospital Institute (IHU) for infectious diseases announced on Friday, December 10 on Twitter that it had discovered a new variant in several patients from Forcalquier (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence). Called IHU, it was deposited on the GISAID (Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data) scientific sharing network, under the name B.1.640.2.
11:50 – “Almost 6 million tests” are carried out per week, affirms Olivier Véran
Visiting a pharmacy in the North, the Minister of Health and Solidarity Olivier Véran affirmed: “Nearly six million tests are carried out in our country per week, these are absolutely record levels. Imagine that this makes 10 % of the population gets tested every week “. For him, this is one of the proofs that “our screening system […] holds “. The opening of pharmacies on Sundays in December and January, which had been announced by the Minister several days ago and on which a decree was published today in the Official Journal, will increase screening capacities .
11:43 – How many French people are vaccinated against Covid-19?
In his last epidemiological point, Santé publique France indicates that it estimates vaccination coverage at 77.7% of the population for at least one dose and 76.1% for a complete vaccination. Among those aged 65 and over, 51.4% had received a booster dose by December 7.
In addition, the Ministry of Health and Solidarity states that as of December 8, 52,189,810 people had received at least one dose, of which 51,107,865 were fully vaccinated.
11:30 am – 59 confirmed cases of the Omicron variant in France
In his last epidemiological bridge, Santé publique France observes that 59 confirmed cases of the Omicron variant have been counted in France, as of December 9 at 4 p.m.
According to the latest data from Public Health France, communicated Thursday, December 9, the seven-day average continues to increase and exceed 47,000 new cases, 47,465 exactly, against 46,060 the day before. In the past 24 hours, 127 people have died from Covid-19 in hospital, two less than yesterday and 27 more than last Thursday. In hospitals, the situation continues to worsen. In 24 hours, 1,250 new patients were admitted, 38 less than yesterday and 300 more than last Thursday. Here is the detailed report:
According to last epidemiological point of Public Health France (SPF), published Thursday, December 9, “the circulation of SARS-CoV-2, already very intense on the metropolitan territory, continued to progress, with hospitalizations and admissions in critical care still rising sharply” . On average, nearly 43,000 cases were diagnosed each day and the incidence rate was 448 positive cases per 100,000 population in many areas – the incidence rate therefore exceeded those of the peaks of Wave 3 and Wave 4.
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Since mid-October 2020, Public Health France has been communicating incidence data (number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants) at the municipal level. The figures are at this stage communicated according to a scale (10, 20, 50, 150, 250, 500, 1000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants). The data are expressed on a rolling week, which means that they are calculated on a day D from the tests carried out between 3 and 9 days previously. To access information relating to the coronavirus in your town, enter its name in the search engine or click on its department in the map below.
As a reminder, the incidence rate corresponds to the number of new cases of Covid-19 over a period of one week, compared to the total population of a territory (country, region, department or municipality). This indicator is generally expressed in number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants. The screening rate gives the number of people who have tested for the coronavirus out of the total number of inhabitants, during the period. It is also expressed most often on 100,000 inhabitants. Finally, the test positivity rate gives the percentage of positive tests for the coronavirus, compared to the total number of tests carried out over the period.