COVID. While Public Health France reports more than 305,000 new coronavirus contaminations in 24 hours on Thursday, the number of patients in critical care is down slightly with nearly 4,000 people in intensive care (-76 on average over seven days) .
01/13/22 – 23:59 – The risk of being placed in intensive care reduced by approximately 75% with the Omicron variant
[Fin du direct] An American study conducted by the University of California, published Wednesday, January 12, showed a greatly reduced risk of hospitalization and death with the Omicron variant compared to Celta. People infected with Omicron were half the risk of being hospitalized than those with Delta, according to this study. The risk of being placed in intensive care was reduced by regarding 75%, and the risk of dying by more than 90%.
01/13/22 – 23:31 – Jean-Michel Blanquer announces “five million FFP2 masks” for education
Jean-Michel Blanquer spoke following the day of mobilization once morest the multiple health protocols in schools. “We have heard the expectation for FFP2 masks,” he said on Thursday. A bimonthly meeting will be organized with the teachers’ unions to improve the dialogue.
01/13/22 – 23:07 – Five departments have incidence rates greater than 4,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants
According to figures from Public Health France published this Thursday, from January 4 to 10, 2022, 2,833 cases per 100,000 inhabitants have been recorded nationally. The incidence rate exceeds 2,000 cases in more than half of the country’s departments. Val d’Oise, Essonne, Seine-Saint-Denis, Savoie and Haute-Savoie have incidence rates above 4,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants from January 4 to 10, 2022.
01/13/22 – 22:41 – Île-de-France and Corsica are experiencing a drop in contamination
While in its daily report of the Covid-19 epidemic, Public Health France reported Thursday, January 13, 2022 of 305,322 new cases identified in 24 hours, an average of the number of daily cases over 7 days to nearly 294,000 , two regions experiencing decreases in contamination: Île-de-France and Corsica.
01/13/22 – 22:16 – The peak viral load of the Omicron variant would occur later than that of Delta
According to a study published by the Japanese Institute of Infectious Diseases, the peak of the viral load, that is to say the period when the patient is most contagious, would occur for the Omicron variant between three and six days following the first symptoms. New data that might have a significant impact on the isolation measures for people infected with Covid-19 if its results were confirmed. The peak viral load for the Delta variant is indeed very different: it occurs between two days before and two days following the onset of symptoms.
01/13/22 – 9:42 pm – Parliament authorizes the creation of a monitoring platform for the long Covid
The Parliament definitively adopted, this Thursday, by a vote of the Senate, a UDI bill aimed at creating a monitoring platform to better take care of people suffering from long Covid. This phenomenon is characterized by the persistence of symptoms in an affected patient months following contracting Covid-19, including mild forms. The platform should allow improved management and global recognition of the disease.
01/13/22 – 9:15 PM – Relaxed measures for vaccinated travelers from the UK
People vaccinated once morest Covid-19 will be authorized from Friday January 14 to move from the United Kingdom to France without having to present a compelling reason, and will no longer have to undergo a period of isolation of 48 hours, announced the French authorities, this Thursday.
01/13/22 – 8:51 pm – More than 30.5 million French people have received their third dose
According to data from the Ministry of Health, 618,007 vaccine injections were carried out on Thursday in the country. Among them, 536,440 booster doses. Now, more than 30.5 million French people have received their third dose. In addition, 48,279 people received their first dose of the vaccine. 79.3% of the total population has now received at least one dose.
01/13/22 – 8:46 pm – The prefectural decree making the mask mandatory outside in Paris suspended
The prefectural decree making the mask mandatory outside in Paris is suspended, according to the Paris court, this Thursday. After Versailles on Wednesday January 12, Paris is the second city to reverse this decision taken to fight once morest the spread of Covid-19.
01/13/22 – 8:26 pm – Prisons alert the government to “the exceptional epidemic resumption” of Covid-19
The general controller of places of deprivation of liberty (CGLPL) wrote this Thursday to the Ministry of Justice to alert it to “the need to quickly resort” to “prison regulation mechanisms” to relieve detainees and supervisors, affected by the duration of the restrictions linked to Covid-19. Faced with “the exceptional epidemic resumption”, the last point communicated by the government, on January 4, recorded 863 cases among nearly 70,000 detainees, and 1,029 among the staff (out of approximately 40,000).
01/13/22 – 7:55 pm – Slight decrease in the number of patients in critical care
According to daily data published by Public Health France, this Thursday, 2,513 people were admitted in 24 hours to hospital, and 334 patients were admitted to critical care services. 24,154 people are hospitalized in France, or 265 more than yesterday. Among them, 3,939 are treated in critical care services, or 46 less than yesterday.
01/13/22 – 19:42 – More than 305,000 new contaminations in 24 hours
The latest report of Covid-19 in France reports 305,322 new contaminations, Thursday, January 13. The figures communicated by Public Health France therefore show that the number of new cases has fallen once more since the day before (-56,397), but the average of daily cases over 7 days continues to increase and is approaching 300,000 new daily infections: 293,867 new patients, Thursday, January 13, compared to 287,604 the day before. In addition, the incidence rate has declined. It is now 2,833 cases per 100,000 inhabitants following losing 3 points in 24 hours.
01/13/22 – 7:38 pm – 43% increase in work stoppages over the last five weeks of 2021 compared to those of 2020
The Covid-19 continues to impact the work of the French. “We have a significant acceleration in the number of work stoppages over the last five weeks of 2021 and the trend is confirmed at the start of the year,” said Thomas Fatome, Director General of Health Insurance, on Thursday. Over the last five weeks of 2021, there were 3.4 million work stoppages compared to 2.4 million in 2020 over the same period (+ 43%). 50% of work stoppages are linked to Covid.
01/13/22 – 7:12 pm – Almost 12 million tests for Covid-19 in one week
Nearly 12 million Covid-19 tests were carried out during the week of January 3 to 9, according to figures released Thursday, January 13 by the Ministry of Health. 11.96 million PCR and antigen tests were validated between January 3 and 9, once morest 8.31 million during New Year’s week, said the DREES (Department of Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics).
01/13/22 – 6:45 pm – A declaration by Retailleau would have caused “an intolerable attack” to the functioning of Parliament
While the disagreement between deputies and senators is now “recorded”, the president of the Law Commission of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet (LREM) indicated that an “agreement in principle” on the text of the law on the vaccine pass had been obtained this Thursday. However, a tweet before the end of the meeting of the president of the senators LR Bruno Retailleau, evoking a “victory of the good sense” of his, brought “an intolerable attack” to the functioning of the Parliament, she affirmed.
According to the latest data from Public Health France, communicated on Thursday, January 13, the seven-day average continues to increase and now exceeds 293,000 new cases. In the past 24 hours, 225 people have died from Covid-19 in hospital. The incidence rate has fallen over the past 24 hours and is now 2,833 new contaminations per 100,000 inhabitants, or 3 points less than the day before. Here is the detailed report:
According to last epidemiological point of Public Health France (SPF), published Thursday, January 6, France is facing an “extremely marked acceleration in the circulation of SARS-CoV-2 linked to the very rapid progression of the Omicron variant and increase in new hospitalizations”. On average, the incidence rate was 1,908 positive cases per 100,000 population nationwide.
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.
