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hospitalizations are climbing, other measures before Christmas?

COVID. The government has taken some new measures to counter the epidemic as the holiday season approaches. This Tuesday, January 7, the Minister of National Education nevertheless indicated that bringing forward the school holidays was not completely excluded.

  • This Tuesday, December 7, the indicators on the coronavirus in France clearly show a worrying health situation. Public Health France estimates, according to the latest figures from Monday evening, that more than 12,000 people are now hospitalized, with nearly 2,200 people in intensive care. The detailed report is to be found at the bottom of this page. Yesterday, at a press conference, the Prime Minister regretted that “hospitals are starting to come under pressure”.
  • The health protocol in primary schools has been strengthened and is now upgraded to level 3. Pupils and staff must in particular wear masks indoors and outdoors. The vaccination of the most fragile children aged 5 to 11 will be open from December 15. The discos close for 4 weeks. All the new measures can be found in our article dedicated to Jean Castex’s speech.
  • Should we expect new measures before Christmas? The government will not impose a curfew or confinement in the coming weeks, but it is the evolution of the hospital situation that will guide the action of the executive. Adjustments are not excluded: this Tuesday morning, Jean-Michel Blanquer, Minister of National Education, judged that bringing forward the Christmas school holidays was not completely ruled out. In addition, regarding the vaccination of children under 12, the timetable has not yet been clearly set.

And immediately

09:59 – Gabriel Attal: “We certainly did not pass the peak” of the 5th wave

Invited by France Inter this Tuesday morning, government spokesman Gabriel Attal warned about the health situation in France: “Today we have an incidence rate quite well above 400 per 100,000 inhabitants,” he said. he indicated, adding that “we have exceeded the level that we experienced in the fourth wave this summer, in the third wave in the spring and we are now approaching the level that we experienced in the second wave ago one year “and that” there is always a strong increase “. The Secretary of State to the Prime Minister also referred to the slight slowdown in the epidemic, while remaining cautious: “If the rate of growth of the epidemic was 60% a week a few days ago, it is now 40%, but it remains very high, he estimated. “We have certainly not passed the peak, since the epidemic continues to progress, to gain ground quickly”.

09:55 – Back to “5,000 checks per month” to check the maintenance of barrier gestures in the company

This Tuesday, December 7, at the microphone of LCI, the Minister of Labor, Employment and Integration Elisabeth Borne called on employees and employers to “re-mobilize on the respect of barrier gestures and teleworking”. Recalling that “we have set a target of two to three days of teleworking”, she justified: “The objective is that this strengthening of teleworking can be implemented in social dialogue, within each company”. And to conclude on the strengthening of health checks in companies: “I asked the Labor Inspectorate to resume its checks, to return to 5,000 checks per month”, she affirms, specifying that there are had had “less than 1,000 in October”.

09:49 – Air purifiers are not, for Jean-Michel Blanquer, “the solution to the problem”

The Minister of Education assured this December 7 on RTL that the government was “able to come in support” if the communities needed air purifiers: “There is an envelope of 20 million to reimburse the needy local communities “, he specified, recalling that a CO2 sensor costs 50 euros and that many communities are able to buy it. . However, for him, air purifiers are not “the magic solution to the problem” – hence the fact that the authorities have invested more in CO2 sensors.

09:42 – 80% of high school students vaccinated, according to Jean-Michel Blanquer

On RTL, this December 7, the Minister of Education affirmed that 80% of students in secondary school were vaccinated. In addition, no case of Omicron was detected at school, he assured, but that “will not be long”, qualified Jean-Michel Blanquer, citing the rapid spread of the virus in the general population . He finally indicated that the vaccine campaign for vulnerable 5-11 year olds will not take place at school, but that it will be encouraged there.

09:35 – Jean-Michel Blanquer emphasizes that school is not dangerous for children

This Tuesday morning on RTL, Jean-Michel Blanquer assured that there was “much more mixing in the personal life of children than during school time” and that the very high incidence in children (as a reminder, 6-10 year olds have the highest incidence rate in France) is explained by the fact that children are tested three times more than adults – where, according to the Minister of Education, it was the reverse before the holidays of the Toussaint.

For Mr. Blanquer, it is therefore not possible to speak of an “explosion” of cases in children.

08:43 – Jean-Michel Blanquer qualifies yesterday’s announcements on school holidays

Should we expect new measures concerning the school before the end of the year? This Tuesday morning, invited by RTL, the Minister of National Education did not close the door to advance the holidays. “This is not a message that I am passing on” he said, adding: “All the assumptions are on the table, but bringing forward the Christmas holidays is not the preferred hypothesis today. must not accustom people to the fact that we don’t go to school, we don’t go “.

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According to the latest data from Public Health France, communicated Monday, December 6, the seven-day average continues to increase and exceed 42,000 new cases, 42,892 exactly, against 42,459 the day before. In the past 24 hours, 192 people have died from Covid-19 in hospital, 163 more than yesterday and 89 more than last Monday. In hospitals, the situation continues to worsen. In 24 hours, 1,424 new patients were admitted, 1,055 more than yesterday and 381 more than last Monday. Here is the detailed report:

  • 7,928,572 cases confirmed by PCR (nursing home included), i.e. 11,308 more
  • 92,778 hospital deaths, 192 more
  • 12,096 people currently hospitalized, i.e. 570 more
  • 2,191 people currently in intensive care, i.e. 125 more
  • 1,424 new admitted to hospital (+1055) and 307 to intensive care (+237)
  • 439,237 people discharged from hospital, i.e. 648 more
  • Test positivity rate: 6.41%, i.e. 0.11 point more
  • Incidence rate: 430.62 cases / 100,000, i.e. 19.35 point more

According to last epidemiological point of Public Health France (SPF), published Thursday, December 2, France is facing a “new strong increase in SARS-CoV-2 on the metropolitan territory and [une] marked increase in new hospitalizations and critical care admissions. “On average, nearly 30,000 cases were diagnosed each day and the incidence rate was 311 positive cases per 100,000 population in many regions – the majority of regions metropolitan areas had a rate above 300.

  • In metropolitan France, the incidence rate increases in week 47 and goes to 311 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants (vs. 194 in W46, or + 61%). The screening rate increased significantly in W47 (5,418 / 100,000, + 37% compared to W46). The test positivity rate was increasing (5.7%, vs 4.9% in W46). The corrected incidence rate was sharply increasing in all age groups: the highest rates were observed in 6-10 year olds (663, + 92%), 30-39 year olds (421, + 56% ), 0-9 year olds (389, + 85%) and 10-19 year olds (344, + 76%).
  • The number of hospitalizations on the rise. The indicators by date of admission showed 4,212 new hospitalizations in W47 (+ 35% compared to W46, where 3,131 new hospitalizations were counted) and 967 new admissions to critical care services (+ 37% compared to W46 , where 705 Covid patients were admitted to critical care).
  • The Delta variant of the coronavirus is still the majority in France, more than 99% identified by sequencing during the latest Flash surveys.
  • Vaccination against Covid-19 is still progressing: As of November 30, vaccination coverage from anti-Covid vaccine was estimated at 77.4% of the population for at least one dose, 75.8% for a full vaccination. Among those aged 65 and over, 42.9% had received a booster dose.

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.

Click on a department to consult the list of its cities.

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.

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