COVID FRANCE. During a press briefing on the epidemic situation of the coronavirus in France, Jérôme Salomon confirmed that the contaminations had not decreased for a few days and that the 5,000 cases will be difficult to reach.
21:31 – 3 411 new contaminations, a partial figure
In the past 24 hours, 3,411 people have been infected with Covid-19, according to the report from Public Health France. This relatively low figure is normal on Mondays, due to delays in getting back to hospitals on weekends. Mechanically, the results announced Tuesday at the end of the day will be higher, on all criteria. On average 7 days, the most relevant indicator, 10,488 cases are confirmed on average per day, which remains far from the target of 5,000 cases set by Emmanuel Macron.
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21:06 – Hospitalizations on the rise, with 72 new patients
The latest report from Public Health France confirms the increase in hospitalizations: 72 new patients have been admitted to hospital in the past 24 hours, or 26,333 people currently hospitalized. There is a slight decrease in resuscitation, with 22 fewer people (for a total of 3,188 people in intensive care).
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9:05 PM – 366 people have died from Covid-19
According to the latest report from Public Health France, 366 people have died from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours. This brings the death toll since the start of the pandemic to 55,155.
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19:18 – According to ARS Occitanie, “getting tested before family meals is not enough”
As the end of the year holidays approach, the question always arises of being able to reunite (or not) as a family. According to ARS Occitanie, “the winter season is more conducive to the virus and we have not gone down low enough to have peace of mind for the coming weeks”. “Even if your test is negative, that does not guarantee you immunity, recalls its director Pierre Ricordeau, in an interview with the Gazette de Montpellier. Even with a negative test, it is essential to continue to respect the barrier gestures. tests are not 100% reliable, there are false negatives and it is also possible to be contaminated between the time of the result and the family meal. ” The fear of a rebound in the epidemic is in everyone’s mind, due to a possible relaxation of barrier gestures during family reunions. Especially since the number of daily contaminations has reached a plateau in recent days. “The peak of this second wave has passed, but the incidence and positivity rates remain higher today than last spring,” warns Pierre Ricordeau.
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18:57 – The count of antigenic tests integrated from tomorrow
Jérôme Salomon affirmed that, from tomorrow, the count of antigenic tests will be integrated into all the indicators when the latest figures are communicated.
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18:52 – For Solomon, if the epidemic persists it is because of winter
According to Jérôme Salomon, if the epidemic persists, it is because the winter conditions are met and not because of “changes in the behavior of the French”.
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18:31 – Jérôme Salomon alert on intra-family contaminations
The virus will continue to circulate actively around the next few months, the winter season will be very difficult. The end of the year celebrations raise fears of significant intra-family contaminations
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6:23 pm – 3,411 new cases in 24 hours
Jérôme Salomon has just given some figures for this day of December 7 with 3411 new cases in 24 hours (beware the figures for Monday are often very low). 26,365 people are hospitalized and 3,198 people are in intensive care.
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18:21 – “We are still far from the target of 5000 cases”
After an update on the coronavirus in the world, Jérôme Salomon returns to the number of cases in France by affirming that “we are still far from the objective of 5000 cases” and that the ministry is adapting in “real time to face to the situation. “
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18:18 – “The level of daily contamination no longer drops”
In the rest of his speech, the director general of health confirms, “for a few days now, the level of daily contamination has not decreased. It remains particularly high in people over 75 years old.”
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6:15 pm – Jérôme Salomon warns from the start, France is still under the “threat of a rebound”
From the start of his speech, Jérôme Salomon underlines the many efforts of the French but also underlines that despite all this, France faces “a threat of an epidemic rebound”.
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18:13 – Jérôme Salomon begins his press conference
The Director General of Health Jérôme Salomon begins to speak to take stock of the health situation of the coronavirus in France.
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18:10 – The press conference should not be long
Jérôme Salomon is late, the press conference on the health situation of the coronavirus in France was to start at 6 p.m. and the Director General of Health is not yet present at the Ministry of Health.
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17:57 – In Cantal, twelve patients are hospitalized in the intensive care unit
71 patients are hospitalized in Cantal, in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, with two new admitted in the last 24 hours. Twelve patients are in intensive care, with three new entries during the day. 43 people have died from the coronavirus and 218 have been discharged from hospital. The occupancy rate of intensive care beds on December 6, at the regional level, was 98%. The test positivity rate measured on December 3 was 7.5%, or -1.0 points less in 24 hours, while the incidence rate was 76.3 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, or -5.6 points less in 24 hours. The effective R measured on December 1 in the region was 0.53. As a reminder, the department is classified as high vulnerability.
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17:12 – “The level of immunity in the population is not sufficient to protect us [d’une troisième vague]”
Simon Cauchemez, epidemiologist at the Institut Pasteur, said in the columns of the Parisian that “the level of immunity in the population is not sufficient to protect us [d’une troisième vague]The practitioner added that “since it is possible, everything must be done to counter it”.
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4:25 p.m. – The vaccination campaign will be at the heart of debates in Parliament on December 16 and 17
The vaccine strategy will be presented on December 16 to the National Assembly, then to the Senate on December 17. At the press conference on the vaccination campaign on Thursday last week, Jean Castex committed “to ensuring that all the transparency, all the pedagogy be made on the decisions that we will take” on the vaccine.
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16:03 – A plateau can be as deadly as the first wave
The entourage of Olivier Véran told France Inter that “a plateau of three months may be as deadly as the first wave”.
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15:38 – 5,000 cases per day are unachievable
The government conceded that reaching 5,000 cases per day by December 15 is not possible: “to go from 11,000 to 5,000 cases per day in a week, we do not know how”. The head of the infectious diseases department of the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital, Éric Caumes, shares this opinion in the morning of LCI: “I think that it will not be achievable because the curve, indeed, stops going down and stabilize, so it will be difficult to achieve that “.
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14:58 – “We will not be on target by December 15th” according to Castex and Véran
“We will not be on target by December 15”. This sentence was pronounced by Jean Castex and Olivier Véran, respectively Prime Minister and Minister of Health, during a meeting with parliamentarians. The latter refer to the bar of 5,000 new daily contaminations set by Emmanuel Macron. Jean-Christophe Lagarde (UDI) stressed to the Parisian that Jean Castex indicated that there “will be decisions to be made”.
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14:24 – 463 patients hospitalized in Moselle
In Moselle in the Grand-Est, 463 individuals are hospitalized, with ten new admissions in the last 24 hours. 54 patients are in intensive care, with four new entries during the day. The incidence rate was 132.6 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, or -2.3 points less in 24 hours. The effective R measured on December 1 in the region was 0.66.
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Thursday, December 3 in the evening, Public Health France published as every weekend its last weekly epidemiological update on the epidemic for week 48 (from 23 to 29 November 2020). These points, more detailed than the daily reports issued each evening, shed more light on the health situation in the country each week. In summary, SPF indicates that the decline in the circulation of Covid-19 continues on French territory. Here are the key points to remember:
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 department in our article on the Covid map in France.
