COVID. This Thursday, January 6, 2022, Jean Castex announced that “we are ready” for a 4th dose of vaccine, while a new daily contamination record was announced on Wednesday with 332,252 new cases of coronavirus in France. In hospitals, caregivers are exhausted in the face of incessant entry.
12:38 – Three Ligue 2 matches postponed for Covid-19
Three Ligue 2 matches, scheduled for this weekend, have already been postponed due to cases of Covid-19 among the staff of Amiens, Dunkirk and Niort, the Professional Football League announced this Thursday, January 6. . The three matches of the 20th day concerned are Caen-Niort, Dunkirk-Paris FC and Amiens-AC Ajaccio, initially scheduled for Saturday 8 January.
12:15 – There will be no more quarantine for those vaccinated from South Africa to France
Vaccinated travelers from South Africa will no longer be subject to the ten-day quarantine to which they were until now obliged to comply, according to a decree published this Thursday, January 6. In question ? South Africa is moving from the “scarlet red” category to the “red” category: the ten-day quarantine therefore remains mandatory only for travelers whose vaccination schedule is not complete.
11:53 – Gilles Pialoux calls for “prioritizing screening”
At the microphone of BFMTV, Professor Gilles Pialoux called for “prioritizing screening”, recalling that vaccination did not eliminate the risk of contamination. He also called for better respect for barrier gestures.
11:40 – Gilles Pialoux says he is “very afraid of the month of January”
Guest of BFMTV, the head of the infectious diseases department at Tenon hospital (Paris) Gilles Pialoux said he was “very afraid of the month of January”, which, according to him, should be marked in particular by the arrival of many patients positive for the Omicron variant .
11:25 – 8.3 million tests performed the week of December 27, 2021 to January 2, 2022
According to the Directorate of Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics (DREES), 8.3 million PCR and antigen tests were carried out between December 27, 2021 and January 2, 2022. A record, estimates the DREES, which notes that the increase is particularly felt among 16-65 year olds. In addition, management notes that some 6,878,600 tests had been carried out the previous week. For the day of December 31, 2021 alone, 1,878,000 tests were validated – a daily volume record.
Finally, in total, 168,215,000 RT-PCR and antigenic tests were validated in 2021, including 48.8% of antigenic tests, indicated the department.
11:00 – Rugby: several members of the Club de Montpellier positive
In a statement, the Montpellier club announced that several members of its workforce and its management had tested positive for Covid-19, just four days before the 15th day of the Top 14 once morest the Toulouse stadium, which is due to take place on Sunday In Toulouse.
10:18 – The Valneva vaccine expected in Europe next April
In one communicated, the biotech confirmed “the previously communicated schedule for clinical trials and marketing authorization applications for its inactivated and adjuvanted vaccine candidate once morest COVID-19, VLA2001”. And to indicate: “The potential regulatory authorizations are still expected during the first quarter of 2022”.
The serum from the Nantes company will therefore have to wait to be validated by the European Medicines Agency.
09:55 – Jean Castex concedes a hitch in the announcement of the school health protocol
At the microphone of BFMTV, Prime Minister Jean Castex conceded the quack of the executive in the late announcement of the new health protocol in schools. “But we are in a crisis. Managing the epidemic is complicated,” he said.
09:45 – Vaccine pass: entry into force still scheduled for January 15
On BFMTV, Jean Castex maintained that the government hoped “that the vaccine pass enters into force on January 15”, welcoming its adoption in the National Assembly
09:31 – Jean Castex: “The testing system is under strain”
This Thursday, January 6, Jean Castex acknowledged that the system of Covid-19 screening tests was “in tension”. For him, this is mainly due to “a lack of arms”.
09:09 – Omicron represents “between 70 and 80%” of infections in France
At the microphone of BFMTV this Thursday, the Prime Minister announced that the Omicron variant represented “between 70 and 80% of contaminations” with Covid-19 in France. And to underline: “France is the second country in the world to test”.
08:59 – Surgical masks distributed to teachers
During his interview on BFMTV / RMC, Jean Castex announced that he had “decided to provide all teaching staff with surgical masks and obviously, if the High Scientific Council tells us we must go to the next step (FFP2 masks) , We will do it”.
08:52 – “We are ready for the 4th dose” announces Castex
France seems to be heading straight for the injection of a 4th dose of vaccine. On BFMTV / RMC, Jean Castex announced Thursday January 5, 2022 that “as soon as our health authorities have said yes in such conditions, and I can clearly see that of the most fragile French people taking shape, we will go. We are ready”.
08:46 – 5% of hospitalized patients presented a false health pass
During the examination of the bill on the vaccine pass at the National Assembly, Olivier Véran announced to the hemicycle that “5% of hospitalized patients” had a false health pass and were not vaccinated. “The false pass kills, it is reality”, launched the Minister of Health.
08:37 – “The feeling of a never-ending day” in the hospital
The epidemic wave that is sweeping, it is not only figures announced by Public Health France. In hospitals, caregivers share their fatigue. In a Toulouse hospital, Benjamine Sarton, a general-purpose intensive care doctor, told BFM TV that “it feels like a never-ending day” for two years. “We can’t wait for it to stop.” Here, 29 people are in intensive care, none were vaccinated. “The youngest is 34, the oldest is 74. They have the same risk factors, namely diabetes, overweight, high blood pressure, and some have underlying conditions but some do not. of risk factors “, specifies Dr Béatrice Riu, head of the multi-purpose intensive care unit.
According to the latest data from Public Health France, communicated on Wednesday, January 5, the seven-day average continues to increase and is now approaching 200,000 new cases. In the past 24 hours, 246 people have died from Covid-19 in hospital. The incidence rate has once once more increased in the past 24 hours and is now 1,752.53 new contaminations per 100,000 inhabitants, or 48.77 points more than the day before. Here is the detailed report:
According to last epidemiological point of Public Health France (SPF), published Thursday, December 30, “the strong acceleration of the circulation of SARS-CoV-2 with a significant progression of the Omicron variant now in the majority”. On average, the incidence rate was 833 positive cases per 100,000 population in many regions – the incidence rate therefore exceeded those of the peaks of wave 2, 3 and 4.
Follow the evolution of the coronavirus in your town using the map below. Click on a department to display the list of municipalities. Also find all the details on this mapping and the full point by city and by department in our article on the Covid map in France.
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.
