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In summary :
– The number of contaminations reaches a record in France. More than 100,000 new cases of Covid-19 were recorded on Christmas Day, a level not seen since the start of the pandemic.
– Faced with the burning omicron file, a health defense council following an extraordinary Council of Ministers, by videoconference from Brégançon for Emmanuel Macron, is being held this Monday.
– Airlines had to cancel more than 8,000 flights around the world during the weekend, in particular because of the omicron variant, which disrupted travel during the holidays.
11h05
In Australia, 1,400 people mistakenly declared negative just before Christmas. The case, relayed by the Daily Mail, could well boost the figures of Covid-19 contamination in the country. At Saint Vincent Hospital in Darlinghurst, Sydney (Australia), 1,395 tests of positive patients, carried out just before Christmas, were declared negative by mistake. Residents reportedly received the false results of their analysis even before the samples were tested. In a message of apology transferred to 400 people, the hospital implicates a “human error”.
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10h13
Omicron, already dominant in Île-de-France? For Dominique Costagliola, it is “without a doubt” the case. Guest of France Inter this Monday, the epidemiologist describes a “quite contrasted situation depending on the region. ” It evokes one of the regions, such as Ile-de-France, where the incidence is increasing “Extremely quickly”, in which the omicron variant could be dominant. On the other hand, it falls under the regions “Like Paca, where the incidence is also very high ” but not because of omicron. “It is Delta which, at the present time, saturates resuscitations in the Paca region “, she emphasizes.
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9h32
The shortage of screening tests in the US is being resolved. The shortage of Covid-19 tests observed in the United States will soon be resolved, assured Dr.Anthony Fauci, senior White House adviser in the fight against the pandemic, on Sunday, as the country observes an outbreak of cases. due to the omicron variant. “One of the problems right now is that [les tests] will not be fully available to everyone before January ”, said the epidemiologist while on the occasion of the end of the year family celebrations the United States experienced a real rush on tests, especially on kits for testing at home.
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9h07
In New York, a worrying increase in child hospitalizations. The omicron variant continues to spread in the United States, where health officials in New York are seeing an increase in the number of children hospitalized in connection with Covid-19, while the White House on Sunday promised to quickly resolve the shortage of tests in the country. New York State Department of Health “Is closely monitoring an upward trend in pediatric hospitalizations associated with Covid-19”, according to a press release. “The biggest increase concerns the city of New York with admissions which have quadrupled” between the week of December 5 and that of December 19, it is specified. Half of these admissions concern children under the age of 5, therefore who are not yet old enough to be vaccinated.
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9h06
Health Defense Council by videoconference. The executive is mobilized on Monday to hasten the transformation of the health pass into a vaccination pass, but also to “Reassess” now the situation created by the meteoric growth of the new variant. President Emmanuel Macron will hold by videoconference a health defense council dedicated to Covid-19 at 4 p.m., one hour before the Council of Ministers which must adopt the bill establishing the vaccine pass. Initially scheduled for entry into force at the end of January, this text will be examined in committee at the National Assembly from Wednesday, before going to the Senate from January 5. Its implementation is scheduled for January 15, according to the bill consulted by AFP.
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