COVID. This Thursday, January 20, 2022, a new Health Defense Council is organized at the Elysée to take stock of the situation of Covid-19 in France. Will announcements be made regarding restrictions?
- Will France be able to breathe, experience a new turn of the screw or will the status quo be de rigueur? Thursday, January 20, 2022 is organized, at the Elysée, a new Health Defense Council. The opportunity for Emmanuel Macron and the executive to take stock of the epidemic situation of Covid-19 in France and to decide on the restrictions in force in the country.
- Presumably, the maintenance of teleworking, gauges and the closing of nightclubs is favored for two weeks. An agenda for lifting restrictions could be announced.
- The executive would not want to rush given the still high contamination figures with 436,167 new cases recorded on Wednesday January 19. The detailed report can be found on this page, updated daily, devoted to Covid figures in France.
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08:02 – Towards maintaining the restrictions in force
What will the government decide this Wednesday? According to executive sources at BFM TV and LCI, no easing of the restrictions in force should be announced. Thus, the obligation of three days of teleworking, the gauges of 5,000 people outdoors and 2,000 indoors or even the closing of nightclubs should be extended. Despite everything, Emmanuel Macron could set a course and an agenda for lifting these measures could be announced.
07:54 – A new organized Health Defense Council
A new Health Defense Council is organized this Thursday morning at the Elysée. From 9 a.m., Emmanuel Macron, his Prime Minister Jean Castex, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, the Minister of Defense Jean-Yves le Drian, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Economy Bruno le Mayor, as well as Elisabeth Borne, the Minister of Labour, to provide a new update on the evolution of the Covid-19 epidemic in the country. This will be followed by a Council of Ministers at 10.30 am. For the time being, if Gabriel Attal, spokesperson for the government, should speak as always between noon and two, no speech by Jean Castex or Olivier Véran has been announced for the time being.
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According to the latest data from Public Health France, communicated on Wednesday January 19, the seven-day average continues to progress and exceeds 320,000 new cases. In the past 24 hours, 231 people have died of Covid-19 in hospital. The incidence rate has increased sharply over the past 24 hours and is now 3,098 new contaminations per 100,000 inhabitants, or 31 points more than the day before. Here is the detailed report:
- 436,167 more cases confirmed by PCR (Ehpad included)
- 127,869 deaths in total (Ehpad included), i.e. 231 more
- 100,570 hospital deaths, up 231
- 27,299 deaths in nursing homes (not updated)
- 27,230 people currently hospitalized, i.e. 704 more
- 3,852 people currently in intensive care, i.e. 29 fewer
- 3,187 new hospital admissions (-322) and 330 in intensive care (-37)
- 490,192 people discharged from hospital, i.e. 2,215 more
- Test positivity rate: 24.27%, or 0.43 points more
- Incidence rate: 3098.19 cases/100,000, i.e. 31.15 points more
According to last epidemiological point of Public Health France (SPF), published Thursday January 13, France is facing a “sharp increase in the circulation of SARS-CoV-2” and an “increase in new admissions to hospital and critical care which significantly accentuates tension on hospital care”. The incidence rate was over 2,000 positive cases per 100,000 population in all regions.
- In mainland France, the incidence rate corrected increases in week 01 (03-09 January 2022) and goes to 2,811 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants (vs 1,917 in W52, i.e. +47%). The incidence rate exceeded 2,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants among those under 60 and remained highest among 20-29 year olds (5,208, +44%). It has increased the most among 0-9 year olds (2,524, +132%) and among 10-19 year olds (4,520, +104%).
- The number of new cases diagnosed per day also increases sharply. On average, in S01, more than 269,500 positive cases were detected every day. The effective reproduction rate of the virus stood at 1.44. The test positivity rate was also up (19.8%, vs 17.1% in W52, i.e. +2.7 points).
- The number of new hospitalizations of Covid-19 patients is also increasing sharply. Indicators by date of admission reported 12,815 new hospitalizations in S01 (compared to 10,939 in S52, i.e. +17%) and 2,126 new admissions to critical care units (compared to 1,981 in S52, i.e. +7%) .
- The Omicron variant of the coronavirus is the majority in France, identified in 89% of tests by sequencing.
- Vaccination against Covid-19 is still progressing: as of January 11, 2022, 77.6% of the total population had received a complete primary vaccination. 55.7% of those aged 18 and over had received a booster dose (66.8% among those eligible) and 76.4% among those aged 65 and over (85.5% among those eligible).
Follow the evolution of the coronavirus in your municipality thanks to the map below. Click on a department to display the list of municipalities. Also find all the details on this mapping and the complete 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 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 is expressed over a rolling week, which means that it is calculated on a D-day from tests carried out between 3 and 9 days previously. To access information relating to the coronavirus in your municipality, 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 as the number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants. The screening rate gives the number of people having carried out a screening test for the coronavirus out of the total number of inhabitants, during the period. It is also most often expressed per 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.