1:15 p.m .: “Very worrying” situation in Provence-Alpes-Côte D’Azur
The health situation is “very worrying” in the Provence-Alpes-Côte D’Azur region where the Regional Health Agency has declared that it has not yet observed a “slowdown in the growth” of the Covid-19 epidemic.
Asked about a “shift” observed by several specialists, the director of ARS Paca, Philippe Demester, reacted: “I am very happy for Ile-de-France that it [Martin Hirsch] feel this inflection, as far as we are concerned it is too early to tell. “” There is no slowdown in growth here yet, “he added at a press conference, referring to “a viral circulation which is accentuated for two weeks”.
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1:06 p.m.: European stock markets take off
The European stock markets fly away on the hope of an effective vaccine.
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12:48 pm: A Pfizer vaccine “90% effective”
Pfizer and Biontech announce that their vaccine is “90% effective” after the first interim analysis of their phase 3 trial, the last before a license application.
This “vaccine efficacy” was measured by comparing the number of participants infected with the novel coronavirus in the group that received the vaccine and in that on placebo, “seven days after the second dose” and 28 days after the first, have- they explained in a joint statement.
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11:13 am: 20% less attendance, 15% drop in activity at Intermarché
The re-containment and the ban on the sale of products deemed non-essential have led to a drop in activity of around 15% and attendance by 20% in the brands of the Intermarché / Netto group, its president Thierry Cotillard said on Monday.
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10:59 am: Fines for not respecting the isolation? The government is thinking about it
According to Europe 1, the French government could consider fines for not respecting the isolation.
In Switzerland, the UK and many countries in Asia, for example, coronavirus-positive patients can already be fined heavily if they leave their homes before the deadline imposed by health authorities has passed.
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112:53 am: Curfew in Romania, Portugal and Georgia
– A nighttime curfew, the obligation to wear a mask outdoors and the ban on public and private parties come into force on Monday in Romania, where hospitals are threatened with saturation by the pandemic.
– Portugal establishes a state of health emergency on Monday, and a night curfew comes into force in the 121 municipalities where approximately 70% of the country’s inhabitants live. This curfew will be applied from 1 p.m. during the weekend.
– Georgian Prime Minister Guiorgui Gakharia, tested positive for the coronavirus, has been in quarantine for a week and has announced a night curfew in several major cities from Monday, the pandemic so far well under control being galloping since the lifting of containment in September.
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10:39 am: Two patients transferred from the North to Germany
Two Covid-19 patients (one from Valenciennes, the other from Tourcoing) were once again helicoptered on Monday morning to Germany to relieve congestion in the intensive care units says La Voix du Nord.
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10:26 am: A source of contamination at the Montbéliard police academy
“On a cumulative basis for 18 days, we have effectively identified 57 positive cases, moreover 43 people are at home in case of contact”, indicated the divisional commissioner Denis Wuhrlin, director of the national police school of Montbéliard. “The 166 other students as well as the permanent staff were all tested Thursday and Friday,” he added. While waiting for the results of these tests, all the students stayed at home.
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10:12 am: Gas stations can again sell alcohol
The government modified the decree specifying the rules of the new confinement this Friday, November 6, 2020, in particular article 37 which indicated that fuel and fuel retailers were authorized to sell “take-out food, excluding alcoholic products”. Thus, the mention “excluding alcoholic products” has been deleted, which implies that service stations will be able to sell alcohol again (between 8 am and 6 pm as provided by law).
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9:27 am: A mobile hospital to deploy five wards in seconds
A mobile hospital has been created by the Samu de Haute-Garonne. It will be installed this Monday in Bayonne, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in order to support the emergency department of the local hospital center.
This building can be deployed in twenty minutes and can accommodate 18 patients in five rooms.
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A few seconds to deploy the 5 rooms of the mobile hospital created by the Samu 31 of the @CHUdeToulouse. He takes the road to Bayonne where he will be support for the emergencies of the @CHCoteBasque #COVID19france pic.twitter.com/fgDisf0kCu
– France Bleu Occitanie (@bleuoccitanie) November 9, 2020
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8:43 am: “In some regions, there is a quivering” figures according to Karine Lacombe
“In some regions, there is a quiver” of figures indicated Professor Karine Lacombe, infectious disease specialist at Saint-Antoine hospital in Paris, on BFMTV / RMC this Monday morning.
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Covid-19: Karine Lacombe confirms the “tremor” of the epidemic in certain regions, including Île-de-France pic.twitter.com/xTadwWrD80
— BFMTV (@BFMTV) November 9, 2020
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An observation shared by Martin Hirsch, the director general of the AP-HP and the infectious disease specialist Anne-Claude Crémieux. But the latter specifies: “Nevertheless, we must remain cautious because we had already observed at the end of September a small improvement which was not confirmed with the sudden increase in cases at the beginning of October.”
She also underlined that “it is within the family and in the companies in all moments of conviviality that one contaminates oneself the most”. And to add: “We can expect several waves over 1 or 2 years, but I don’t have a crystal ball. ”
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.@MartinHirsch : “We, in the IDF region, say we are available in the coming days [pour accueillir des patients] if we can help regions in more difficult situations ” #hospitals #Covid #epidemic # le79Inter pic.twitter.com/6hCbZZmVp7
– France Inter (@franceinter) November 9, 2020
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The progression of hospitalizations is slowing down slightly but the rise continues. This thrill is of course positive but still very fragile
Aurélien Rousseau, Director of the Ile-de-France Regional Health Agency
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1/2 The figures after the WE show that the tension remains very high in the hospitals of IdF with soon 1,100 Covid patients in shifts. The progression of hospitalizations is slowing down slightly but the rise continues. This thrill is of course positive but still very fragile.
– Aurélien Rousseau (@aur_rousseau) November 9, 2020
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2. Before learning any lessons, we need a few days to first confirm and consolidate this thrill. Too often we have experienced jerks to learn from experience. One must keep. Do not waste the fruit of everyone’s mobilization before having harvested it definitively
– Aurélien Rousseau (@aur_rousseau) November 9, 2020
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7:51 am: The reinforced health protocol comes into force this Monday in high schools
The health protocol in high schools will be strengthened from this Monday, by authorizing more distance learning courses, provided that at least 50% of face-to-face teaching is retained for each student. But despite these new rules announced by the Minister of Education, the call for a teachers’ strike on November 10 is maintained.
Since the start of the school year, teachers and students have demonstrated all over France to denounce the health protocol deemed insufficient, with overcrowded classes and a lack of distancing.
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7:36 am: France should see its GDP cut by 12% in November
The reconfinement should cost the French economy 12% of its GDP in November compared to a so-called “normal” activity, anticipates the Bank of France, with a plunge in catering, non-food trade and recreational activities.
“The loss of GDP would be -12% in November, against -4% in October but -31% in April”, ie at the time of the first confinement in France.
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7:30 am: 770 million euros in shortfall if toy stores remain closed
If specialized stores and toy departments of supermarkets remain closed for the end of year holidays due to confinement, the sector will suffer “a shortfall of 770 million euros”. This is what a study by NPD Group indicates on Monday.
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7am: UFC-Que Choisir alert on drug shortages
Highlighted since the start of the pandemic, drug supply shortages and tensions have grown sharply for a decade, warns UFC-Que Choisir, going from 405 shortages in 2016 to almost three times more in 2019. In 2020, 2,400 ruptures should be observed, “six times more than four years ago”, notes the study, citing the National Medicines Safety Agency (ANSM). The association is demanding measures from the French state.
> Find all the details in our article by clicking on this link
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The first measures taken have made it possible to have a form of slowing down the progression of the epidemic but it is too early to judge the effect of the containment.
Olivier Véran, Minister of Health on France Inter / franceinfo / Le Monde
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6:35 am: The Social Security budget bill examined by the senators
The Senate is working for a week, after the Assembly, on the Social Security budget project, weighed down by the Covid-19 crisis. Nearly a thousand amendments have been tabled on this bill which will be examined at first reading from Monday by the upper house. The solemn vote on the entire text will take place on November 17.
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6:25 am: A crisis unit in the United States
United States President-elect Joe Biden will set up a coronavirus crisis cell to combat the main challenge currently facing the US executive.
“On Monday, I will set up a group made up of scientists and experts” so that they work “on a plan which will come into force on January 20, 2021”, the day of his inauguration, declared the president elected on Saturday before a crowd of supporters gathered in Wilmington, Delaware to celebrate his victory.
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6:20 am: A decisive week
Will France soon see the first effects of containment? The question is on everyone’s mind as contaminations soar and the toll now exceeds 40,000 deaths since the start of the epidemic.
Two to three weeks after the implementation of curfews and 10 days after the re-containment, it is a decisive week that opens on the covid-19 front: will the measures have been sufficient, while this second wave promises to be worse than the first? It’s time for a first assessment, before, Thursday, any possible easing or tightening of restrictions.
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The point this Monday morning
- The pandemic has already killed more than 1.25 million people around the world, including a quarter in Europe, for more than 50 million confirmed cases.
- Europe is the new epicenter of the epidemic, but the United States is facing a third wave, with more than 120,000 cases every day. In absolute value, they remain the most bereaved country.
- The total death toll in France reached 40,439 dead, with 271 new deaths in hospital on Sunday.
- In France, several hundred transfers of Covid patients have already taken place or are planned, either between French regions or abroad.
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6:10 am: Follow with us the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic in France and around the world.
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