COVID. While Marseille sees the pressure on its hospitals gradually coming down, the executive is confident for the rest of the epidemic. This Tuesday, Gabriel Attal effectively affirmed “that we have reason to be optimistic”, underlining a “decline in the epidemic” of coronavirus in France.
16:01 – 92.5% of positive cases attributed to Omicron
According to the epidemic monitoring tool CovidTracker, it is suspected that the Omicron variant accounts for up to 92.5% of positive cases in France.
15:53 - 32,027,138 recalls have been made
On his site, the Ministry of Health and Solidarity announced that as of January 17, 32,027,138 booster doses had been carried out since the start of the coronavirus vaccination booster campaign in France. This is 318,173 more than the day before. In addition, on the same date, 53,614,352 people had received at least one injection, ie 79.5% of the total population: 28,075 primary injections have been performed since the day before. 52,295,434 people had a complete vaccination schedule (i.e. 77.6% of the total population).
15:47 – Soon a reminder for teens living with fragile people
During a press briefing this Tuesday, January 18, the Minister of Health and Solidarity Olivier Véran indicated that the executive would “take into account”, “probably this week”, the opinion of the High Authority for Health (HAS) which advocates recall for 12-17 year olds living with fragile people. This opinion, published last week, recommends “administering a booster dose in adolescents living in the entourage of immunocompromised people or vulnerable people who would not be vaccinated”.
As a reminder, so far, the recall of 12-17 year olds is only possible for adolescents at risk of serious forms of the disease.
3:31 p.m. – The trial of the November 13 attacks postponed to next Tuesday
This Tuesday, the president of the special assize court formally postponed the trial of the November 13 attacks to next Tuesday, Ali El Haddad Asufi, one of the eleven accused appearing detained, having tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday: “We can therefore resume the debate on 25 [janvier]“, declared Jean-Louis Périès, during an express hearing of about thirty minutes.
15:15 – Slight delay for the Novavax vaccine in France
The Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday that it expects 1.1 to 1.2 million doses of the Novavax vaccine for the first week of February. Another 800,000 doses are expected per week in March. As a reminder, the first deliveries were scheduled for the end of January or the beginning of February.
15:09 – Losc Lille coach positive
Jocelyn Gouvernnec, coach of Losc Lille, announced on Tuesday that he had been infected with Covid-19. He will therefore not be able to be on the bench on Wednesday at 7:00 p.m., during the (delayed) match of the 20th day between Losc and Lorient. “I was detected positive for Covid so I’m doing the press conference remotely to respect the protocol and the barrier gestures. I had some symptoms with headaches yesterday so it’s frustrating, but you have to respect the protocols,” he said during a videoconference. And to add: “We have all been tested, I am the only one left on the floor. I hope to be there on Saturday [à Brest], but I will be there tomorrow, from a distance, in the spirit and the desire to play a big game”.
14:46 – The incidence rate down in Île-de-France and Corsica
Would Île-de-France and Corsica have passed the peak of new daily contaminations? Their incidence rate, in any case, has been falling for several days. However, the test positivity rate continues to rise in both regions. Guillaume Rozier, founder of CovidTracker, concludes that “the number of positive tests is falling, but the number of tests carried out (positive and negative) is falling even faster. It is therefore difficult to know to what extent the drop in positive tests is linked to a epidemic decline.
2:33 p.m. – The rate of primary injections is starting to drop again
In a tweet, the journalist from Parisian Nicolas Berrod details the figures for the rate of first injections: there are approximately 30,000 per day on average today, a figure having decreased in recent days. In addition, how the journalist, “150,000 children aged 5 to 11 received a first dose of vaccine in three weeks, a much slower start than for adolescents in mid-June”.
The rhythm of the first injections starts to decrease again:
• 30,000 per day on average – red curve
• 21,000 per day if we remove 5-11 year olds (eligible since December 22) – blue curve
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— Nicolas Berrod (@nicolasberrod) January 17, 2022
The rate of boosters has also decreased, with 470,000 booster doses injected per day on average.
As for the recall campaign, 470,000 doses are administered each day on average.
Here too, the pace is decreasing (and we are far from the 700,000 per day hoped for by Olivier Véran in January).
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— Nicolas Berrod (@nicolasberrod) January 17, 2022
14:11 – The recall campaign continues to progress
According to the journalist at Parisian Nicolas Berrod, to date, 6 out of 10 adult inhabitants in France have received a booster dose of vaccine against Covid-19. In detail, 59.4% of the 52.9 million adult inhabitants of France have inject their recall. Among those aged 65 and over, 3 out of 4 inhabitants (78.4%) received a booster dose. Among 50-64 year olds, this figure drops to 67.7%, and to 46.0% among 18-49 year olds.
13:45 – The vaccine pass reduces the number of people “who were being tested”, deplores Professor Eric Caumes
At the microphone of RMC this Tuesday, Professor Eric Caumes deplored the fact that, without the presidential election, “we would have stayed with the health pass”: “Finally, you withdraw the people who were being tested. It’s a punishment”, he said. he rocks. And to add: “It was done with a view to annoying people who do not get vaccinated. We cannot build a public health policy on the fact of pissing off a tiny part of the population. was in favor of going towards [les non-vaccinés, ndlr].”
1:31 p.m. – Vaccine pass: “There were other subjects to put on the table”, insists Professor Eric Caumes
guest of RMC this Tuesday morning, the head of the infectious diseases department at Pitié-Salpêtrière, Professor Eric Caumes, considered that the transformation of the health pass into a vaccination pass was “useless”, adding that the discussions around this theme “pollute the debate ” in the middle of the presidential campaign: “It brought nothing, except trouble. And it blurs the message”, he assured, adding “that there were other subjects to put on the table than the pass vaccine”.
12:55 – More than 47% of patients in intensive care for Covid-19 are obese
According to the latest data from the Ministry of Health and Solidarity, nearly half of patients infected with coronavirus in intensive care are obese: “The data from the studies successively conducted confirmed the results collected from April 2020 by the teams of the CHRU of Lille: more than 47% of infected patients entering intensive care are in a situation of obesity”, specifies the ministry. An alarming figure, which anguishes the main concerned – gold, recalls the psychologist Alexandra Tubiana in the columns of West France, stress “aggravates food problems”. Dr Alexandre Cortes, head of the visceral and digestive surgery department of the Grand Hôpital de l’Est Francilien (GHEF, Seine-et-Marne) reports to the regional daily that “yesterday, in my department, a man born in 1981 died of the Covid after several days of resuscitation. His only history was overweight “. And to add: “If you look at who died from the Covid, we focused a lot on the elderly but, overall, the people who occupied the sheaves were obese patients”.
12:24 – The Constitutional Council will make its decision on the vaccine pass bill on Friday
Having been seized by sixty deputies and sixty senators from the opposition, the Constitutional Council announced that it will make its decision on Friday on the bill transforming the health pass into a vaccination pass.
11:56 – Omicron: children more contaminated with Covid-19
This Tuesday, Amélie Dhalluin, pediatrician at the University Hospital of Rennes, was the guest of France Bleu Armorique. The opportunity, for her, to recall the importance of the vaccination of children: “As we are in a period when the virus circulates a lot among children, there are necessarily more serious forms. pediatrics at the Rennes University Hospital, we have almost one child a week who has a serious form”, she warned.
11:45 – The health pass would have avoided the death of 4,000 people
According to the Economic Analysis Council (CAE), whose latest study was published on Tuesday, the implementation of the health pass, which boosted vaccination in France, made it possible to prevent the death of 4,000 people in France. The CAE is attached to Matignon.
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According to the latest data from Public Health France, communicated on Monday, January 17, the seven-day average continues to progress and exceeds 295,000 new cases. In the past 24 hours, 296 people have died of Covid-19 in hospital. The incidence rate has increased sharply over the past 24 hours and is now 2,989 new contaminations per 100,000 inhabitants, or 65 points more than the day before. Here is the detailed report:
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.
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.