COVID. While the Covid-19 figures in France are more and more reassuring, the deadline of February 15, the date on which 4 to 5 million unvaccinated French people who have not recently been infected could lose their vaccination pass, is approaching.
23:56 – A new tool to list contact cases
[FIN DU DIRECT] – This Wednesday, February 9, 2022, health insurance launched a new tool which it describes as such in a press release: “Once registered in the Health Insurance ‘Contact Covid’ database, thanks to the declaration made by the positive person, these contact persons will be able to more easily benefit from the coverage of screening tests and, in the event of impossibility of teleworking, request a work stoppage on the declare.ameli.fr site.
11:30 p.m. – According to Gabriel Attal, “the hospital remains under tension”
Although the figures for the coronavirus in France are reassuring, Gabriel Attal wanted to maintain a lucid look at the health situation: “The frank drop, we are there. But let’s not brag, the hospital remains under tension.”
22:55 – Towards a record number of hospitalized patients?
On his Twitter account, the Parisian journalist Nicolas Berrod indicated, based on the latest figures communicated by Public Health France, that “for several days, the number of patients diagnosed with Covid in the hospital has been approaching the record for this pandemic, reached mid-November 2020″.
For several days, the number of patients diagnosed #Covid in hospital is close to the record for this pandemic, reached in mid-November 2020 (33,466).
A peak seems to have been reached, so it may (or probably) will not be exceeded.
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— Nicolas Berrod (@nicolasberrod) February 9, 2022
22:19 – The subcontractor Cenexi will produce a study treatment against Covid in France
This Wednesday, the French subcontractor Cenexi announced that it had signed an agreement with the American biotech Humanigen, with the aim of producing Lenzilumab in France – a potential treatment under study against Covid-19. This agreement allows Cenexi to become, in the next five years, the sole producer of Lenzilumab for the next five years, thanks to its factory in Hérouville-Saint-Clair (Calvados).
As a reminder, Lenzilumab is a monoclonal antibody which aims to prevent and treat “cytokine shock” (also referred to as “cytokine storm”), an inflammatory reaction that seems to play a key role in severe forms of Covid-19. 19. Said treatment is currently in the process of being registered with the European and French health authorities.
9:25 p.m. – EFS warns of blood levels in its reserves
Relayed by many media, the French Blood Establishment (EFS) has launched a call for donations. Indeed, reserves have reached very worrying levels according to the EFS. On their Twitter account, they indicated this Wednesday, February 9: “The level of blood reserves in France is today below the security threshold – Call for urgent mobilization!”
20:50 – Incidence and positivity rates have been falling for several days
On his Twitter account, the journalist from Parisian Nicolas Berrod analyzed the latest Covid-19 figures in France communicated by Public Health France. Thus, he noted that “incidence rate down for 13 consecutive days, and positivity rate down for 7 consecutive days”.
Incidence rate down for 13 consecutive days, and positivity rate down for 7 consecutive days (meaning the number of positive cases is dropping more sharply than the number of tests performed each day). #Covid19 pic.twitter.com/Cl3PUftQxA
— Nicolas Berrod (@nicolasberrod) February 9, 2022
20:00 – More than 37 million booster doses have been performed
The Ministry of Solidarity and Health has unveiled the latest vaccination figures in France as of February 9, 2022. Thus, 37,108,888 booster doses have been administered. In addition, 54,134,744 first injections were performed.
19:05 – Pfizer’s recall for 12-15 year olds is under review
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has announced that it has started to assess an application for approval of a booster dose of the anti-Covid vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech for children aged between 12 and 15 years. As a reminder, the European medicines regulator had already indicated last week that it would soon decide on a similar request for adolescents aged 16 and 17.
18:09 – The Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices seized by the Senate
While the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices has been seized by the Senate, Senator Gérard Longuet told AFP that “the Parliamentary Office is at the disposal of the National Assembly and the Senate ( …) we are going to do a thorough job”, reports LCI. And to specify: “Science fascinates (…) we have points of view which are sometimes very different in the opinion, and the role of the Parliamentary Office is to try to have a convergence on the reality of the available scientific information.
6:00 p.m. – Omicron accounts for up to 99.1% of positive cases in France
According to the latest data, the Omicron variant is responsible for 99.1% of positive coronavirus cases in France to date. This figure corresponds to the proportion of screened tests not having the L452R mutation (which, not present on Omicron, is of course present on Delta).
17:40 – The mask is no longer mandatory on chairlifts and ski lifts
It is The liberated Dauphiné who announced the news: the interministerial crisis unit confirmed, this Wednesday, February 9, that wearing a mask is no longer compulsory, neither on chairlifts, nor on ski lifts, nor on carpets. It is still compulsory on board closed ski lifts (cable cars, cable cars, funiculars), and in their queue, for all over 6 years old, specifies the regional daily.
17:19 – For Alain Fischer, wearing a mask in children is “absolutely justified”
During his hearing in the Senate, Professor Alain Fischer also considered that wearing a mask for the youngest was “absolutely justified”: “It reduces transmission in the population which is today the most infected when we look at the rates of incidence, it is in children and teenagers that they are the highest”, he justified, while the idea of a reduction in the health protocol at school could potentially go through a modification rules for wearing a mask indoors. Furthermore, he underlined the fact that “children adapt better to constraints than adults in general, in medicine this is absolutely obvious”.
5:00 p.m. – End of the vaccination pass: “It can go quite quickly”, insists Alain Fischer
During his hearing by the senators, the president of the Vaccine Strategy Orientation Council (COSV), Alain Fischer, specified the conditions for the abolition of the vaccine pass: “From a scientific and medical point of view, we must that the incidence rate be reduced, well below 2,500, at least ten times less, and the current hospital overload must have disappeared, they must return to their usual operating state and non-Covid patients can be treated “, he listed, also adding the booster dose as an important factor to consider in lifting the pass. “There may be political criteria that I can understand, but in which I will not fit”, he also underlined. Although these conditions seem numerous, he insisted: “It can go quite quickly”, before mentioning, like Gabriel Attal on the same day, the deadline of “end of March, beginning of April”.
16:41 – Alain Fischer regrets that “systematic screening” has not been implemented at school
Always in front of the senators this Wednesday, Alain Fischer regretted “what had been recommended by the Scientific Council, namely systematic screening was not put in place at school, even if we know that its application is complex”.
16:22 – Alain Fischer rules out the fourth dose of vaccine
This is not the first time that the president of the Vaccine Strategy Orientation Council (COSV) has rejected the idea of a fourth dose for all. This Wednesday, February 9, before the Social Affairs Committee in the Senate, Professor Alain Fischer again insisted on the fact that “there are no arguments in favor” of a new vaccine booster: ” The fourth dose is not expected to have as strong a benefit as the booster” currently in place (commonly referred to as the third dose). Recalling that, if “the Germans made this decision”, he wondered: “But I would like to know how, because it is not entirely clear to me.” And to qualify: “It is not excluded that I say the opposite in a week, it is the difficulty of the exercise, you have to adapt quite often”, adding that the question “could come back in several months “.
Here is the latest assessment of the coronavirus in France according to data updated daily by Public Health France and available on Data.gouv. Figures as of February 8, 2022:
The figures from Public Health France are to be qualified. A distinction must be made between patients hospitalized for Covid-19 and with Covid-19 (the figures currently given). The same goes for deaths: if, for example, Public Health France (SPF) reports 5,000 deaths of people positive for the coronavirus in France between December 1, 2021 and January 9, 2022, including 383 attributed to the Omicron variant, these figures are at observe with caution, indicates Release. Indeed, over the period from January 10 to 16 alone, 26% of patients positive for Covid-19 had been admitted for a pathology other than Sars-CoV-2. 13% of Covid-19 positive people admitted to critical care and 8% of positive people admitted to intensive care are in the same situation.
According to last epidemiological point from Public Health France (SPF), published Thursday February 3, “the circulation of SARS-CoV-2 has slowed down on national territory with an incidence rate down by 8%” in week 04 (January 24-30). Yet “the pressure on hospitals remained strong with hospital indicators still at very high levels”.
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.