2023-08-23 04:44:05
From October 17, the Ministry of Health is to launch a new vaccination campaign once morest Covid-19 in mainland France. This is for people at risk.
While the epidemic rebound of Covid-19 is confirmed, with the influence of the two new variants “Eris” and “BA.2.86”, the Ministry of Health will launch, from October 17, a new vaccination campaign in a city.
This aims to “prevent the arrival of winter, a period conducive to the circulation of respiratory viruses”. If this new vaccination campaign is coupled with that of the flu, it is mainly aimed at people at risk.
Thus, it concerns, first of all, the over 65s, patients suffering from comorbidities (diabetes, obesity, chronic diseases, etc.), the immunocompromised and pregnant women. Vaccination is also recommended for people in contact with them, as is the case for example for caregivers.
“Eris” and “BA.2.86”, two resistant forms of Covid-19
Since the beginning of the summer, two new forms of Covid-19 have been detected. The first is indeed a sub-variant of Omicron, scientifically named EG.5, also nicknamed “Eris”.
With 32 mutations in the Spike protein, which plays an essential role in infection, “Eris” would be more contagious than Omicron.
First identified in the United States and the United Kingdom in July 2023, the “Eris” subvariant is responsible for the rise in cases in these two countries. London had estimated that this new form of Omicron would be the cause of at least 15% of cases across the Channel, when Washington had recorded, in mid-August, 9,000 new hospital admissions, most of them patients were carriers of “Eris”.
The second form of Covid-19 currently in circulation is the “BA.2.86” variant. The latter was “placed in the category of variants under surveillance because of the very large number (more than 30) of mutations of the Spike gene that it carries” according to the WHO.
“BA.2.86” has so far been detected in Israel, Denmark, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Asked by CNEWS, the infectiologist Jean-Paul Stahl affirmed that “what we know for the moment is that it is perhaps a little more contagious than the previous variants, that perhaps the effectiveness of vaccines is a little less, and still, it is something which remains to be shown”.
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