As hospital pressure stabilizes, the government unveiled the timetable for the easing of restrictive measures on Thursday January 20. Follow here all the news related to the health situation in France and around the world.
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Nine million French people could lose their vaccination pass on February 15 if they have not taken their booster dose by then, warned Olivier Véran on Tuesday, specifying that the pass would be maintained “as long as a threat weighs on the hospitals”.
“There are still 9 million French people who could lose the benefit of the vaccination pass on February 15 if they have not taken their booster dose”, declared the Minister of Health on LCI. On this date, the period for carrying out this booster dose will be reduced to four months (compared to seven previously) after the last injection.
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“We will end up at 15, 16, 17, 18 million French people infected with Omicron, we have never seen that”, declared this morning the president of the Scientific Council Jean-François Delfraissy, guest of France Info. “The wave on hospitalization will be very heavy on France until about mid-March,” he also warned.