COVID. This Tuesday, Olivier Véran announced that nearly 300,000 new Covid-19 contaminations had been detected in 24 hours in France. Tonight, debates on the vaccine pass bill must resume in the National Assembly, after being suspended last night.
5:20 PM – How many people are in critical care?
As of January 3, there were 3,654 people in critical care for Covid-19 according to CovidTracker. This figure is up 10% from last week.
17:15 – What is the hospital blood pressure in France?
As of January 3, according to CovidTracker, the hospital pressure, i.e. the number of critical care beds occupied by Covid19 patients compared to the number of beds at the end of 2018, was 70.9%
17:01 – 192,483 false health passes on December 30
Before the National Assembly, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin said, this Tuesday, January 4: “We count, at the Ministry of the Interior, 192,483 false health passes on December 30, with 435 openings of judicial inquiries “.
4:44 PM – A booster dose for teens coming soon?
During his speech to the National Assembly this Tuesday, January 4, the Minister of Health and Solidarity Olivier Véran indicated that, if scientific opinions were to evolve concerning the opening of the booster dose to adolescents, who do not is, for the moment, not authorized in France, the government would follow these opinions: “We would be able to do it if we were given the green light”, he also confided. And to add that today: “80% of adolescents had received at least one dose of the vaccine against the Covid and that nearly 78% had a complete vaccination schedule”.
16:32 – Jean Castex expresses his dissatisfaction after the suspension of the debates on the vaccine pass
This Tuesday, the Prime Minister expressed his dissatisfaction with the suspension of the debates on the vaccine pass last night: “The incidence rate exceeds 1800. Yesterday, nearly 20,000 people were hospitalized because of Covid and 272 of our fellow citizens died as a result of the disease, “he insisted. “And during that time, some are ingenuous to make political blows”, he pointed out, targeting the deputies The Republicans. And to add: “It is not responsible! The virus is galloping and you pull on the handbrake.”
16:11 – Olivier Véran calls for vaccination
Before the National Assembly, Olivier Véran called for vaccination on Tuesday, indicating that “for a patient vaccinated with a booster in intensive care, there are 20 unvaccinated patients in intensive care”.
16:01 – Almost 300,000 new contaminations in 24 hours
During an intervention in the National Assembly on Tuesday, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, announced that “today Public Health France risks announcing close to 300,000 new contaminations over 24 hours”.
15:51 – Delta still in the majority in the hospital
Asked by The Parisian, Cyril Charron, medical resuscitator at Ambroise Paré hospital, in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine), indicates that a “vast majority of Covid patients in intensive care are from Delta” in public assistance hospitals – Paris hospitals (AP-HP). And to comment: “This is not surprising, because we can start the Omicron wave with spectacular contaminations around Christmas before feeling the hospital impact, even if we rather expect a wave of hospitalizations It is Delta which today brings in patients in shifts, and patients who are mostly unvaccinated “.
15:26 – The trial of the attacks of November 13 should resume Thursday
The positive screening of Salah Abdeslam had interrupted the gigantic trial of the attacks of November 13. However, it should resume on Thursday, January 6, subject to the state of health of the last member of the commanda responsible for the attacks.
15:05 – A cluster at the Nice remand center
Since January 1, seven inmates (for a total of 500 inmates) and three prison staff have tested positive for Covid-19 at the Nice remand center, according to the UFAP-UNSA Justice union. France Blue Nice also indicates that, for the time being, 13 contact cases have been identified. The remand center being considered as a cluster, the activities offered by the National Education and cultural activities will be suspended – “apart from the outings for walks or medical emergencies, there will be no more outings from the cell” specified the UFAP-UNSA Justice.
The unions of the remand center have, following this news, demanded FFP2 masks in order to protect the staff and the penal population housed.
14:36 - France is the 5th most contaminated country in relation to its population
According to AFP, France is the fifth most contaminated country in relation to its population, with 1,680 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. Ahead of it are Cyprus (2,505 cases per 100,000 inhabitants), Denmark (2,117), Ireland (1,946) and Greece (1,762).
14:25 – Djokovic exempt from vaccination
The world number 1 in tennis Novak Djokovic raised the doubt, this Tuesday, January 4, about his vaccination status. The one who had, for long months, refused to indicate whether or not he was vaccinated, posted on Instagram a photo of him next to a tennis racket bag: under the photo, a caption that indicated, among other things, that he “is heading towards Down Under [l’Australie, ndlr] with an exemption permission “from vaccination against Covid-19.
14:17 – Vaccine pass bill: “We do not [y] will not oppose “, assures Valérie Pécresse
From her campaign HQ, the Republican presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse assured that her party will not oppose the vaccine pass bill, or the National Assembly, or the Senate. The LR deputies of the Palais Bourbon are however among those who voted to suspend the debate around the text last night.
13:45 – Even if Omicron does not cause a hospital wave, January will be a complicated month in the hospital
Nearby Parisian, Professor Mégarbane confirmed that, even if Omicron does not cause a wave of hospitals, the month of January will be less complicated for the hospital: “The public assistance hospitals have received instructions to deprogram most of the medical operations non-urgent to redeploy staff […] There will be significant staff absenteeism linked to Omicron contaminations, “he explained in particular.
13:31 – Despite encouraging data, Professor Mégarbane remains cautious
Despite reassuring words from the Parisian, Professor Mégarbane wanted to be cautious about: “There is a delay of ten to twelve days between contaminations and intensive care admissions. Especially, at the start of the waves, it is the younger, more mobile people who are contaminate, therefore, generally, these are people aged 20-40 years, so less at risk of arriving in intensive care. people more at risk or not vaccinated who were self-contained, and contaminate them. And, in this case, we still have a delay of fifteen additional days, “he told the regional daily to explain this reservation. Thus, for him, “we can say definitively that there will be no hospital wave almost at least a month after the start of the wave of contaminations, that is to say that if on January 20 it does not occur. nothing happened in the hospital, overall nothing will happen. “
According to the latest data from Public Health France, communicated on Monday, January 3, the seven-day average continues to increase and exceeds 167,000 new cases. In the past 24 hours, 270 people have died from Covid-19 in hospital. The incidence rate has sharply increased over the past 24 hours and is now 1,671.62 new contaminations per 100,000 inhabitants, ie 150.78 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 areas – 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 into 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.