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British variant: Arnaud Fontanet believes that “it is almost a new epidemic within the epidemic”
To hear Arnaud Fontanet, the period that opens with the emergence of the British variant in France has little to do with the first and second wave of the pandemic. “It is almost a new epidemic in the epidemic”, commented the epidemiologist, member of the Scientific Council, on BFMTV-RMC.
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8:38
Attal says there is no planned re-containment “at this stage”
Guest of Europe 1, Gabriel Attal has just been questioned on the evolution of the health situation in France. “At this stage, there is no planned reconfinement (…) but we are monitoring the situation carefully,” commented the government spokesperson.
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8:35
British variant in Marseille: the prefect assures on BFMTV that he does not envisage local reconfinement
Guest of BFMTV, Christophe Mirmand, prefect of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, prefect of Bouches du Rhône, indicated that he was not considering local reconfinement in Marseille at this stage.
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7:16
1 year ago, China announced the first official death from the new coronavirus
The Chinese green light for the arrival of a team of WHO investigators on its soil comes a year to the day after the announcement of the first death in China of what was still at the time only a mysterious virus.
This event went unnoticed on Monday in Wuhan, while the media of the communist regime kept silent about this first anniversary. The very name of the first known victim has never been made public. We just know that it is a 61-year-old man who used to go to a market in the city to do his shopping.
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6:27
The WHO team to investigate the origin of the virus will begin its visit to China on Thursday
They will finally be able to start their work on site. The World Health Organization (WHO) team of experts tasked with investigating the origin of the coronavirus, expected in China last week, will finally begin its mission on Thursday, the Chinese Ministry of Health announced on Monday. Health.
This visit is ultra-sensitive for Beijing, anxious to avoid any responsibility for the epidemic which has killed more than 1.9 million people worldwide. Originally scheduled last week, it was canceled at the last minute for lack of all the necessary permissions for the team.
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6:07
First doses of the Moderna vaccine delivered this Monday in France
More than 50,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine against Covid-19, which has just been authorized in Europe, must be delivered on Monday to be transported to the Grand Est, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Paca to be used in week, the health ministry said on Sunday.
The authorization of this 2nd vaccine, after that of BioNTech / Pfizer, “opens the way to a first delivery of doses from this Monday, for a volume of 5,160 vials each containing 10 doses of vaccine, which is in addition to the weekly deliveries of the Pfizer vaccine, “the ministry said in a statement.
These doses, Olivier Véran underlined on Europe 1, will be “dispatched” by Wednesday in the areas where the virus circulates the most, that is to say in Mulhouse, Colmar, Strasbourg, Reims, Nancy, Metz, Lons-le-Saunier, Besançon, Dijon, Moulins, Nice and Toulon, according to the details provided by his office.
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6:04
Concern after the detection of a cluster in Marseille
Hello everyone and welcome to this new live dedicated to the evolution of the coronavirus epidemic in France. Authorities are concerned after the discovery of several cases linked to the new British variant within a family in Marseille.
“Now every minute counts to stem the spread of the English strain”, pleaded the mayor of the city, Benoît Payan. “We must react immediately, we want us to get out of the usual patterns of the crisis and do everything to trace, test and isolate urgently all potential carriers of the British strain.”
In the morning Sunday, Olivier Véran, reaffirmed on Europe 1 “to do everything possible to prevent the dissemination of this variant”. Asked about the hypothesis of a re-containment, the Minister of Health estimated that “additional measures” will be imposed if there is an outbreak of the epidemic. “Which is not the case at the moment”, he said.
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