LIVE – Covid-19: the vaccine pass could be “promulgated before the end of January” according to Attal

The fifth wave continues to swell. The intensive care units, where the number of patients with Covid-19 started to rise again at the end of November, are approaching 3,000 patients, while the daily average of contaminations settles above 50,000. on average more than 52,000 new cases daily over the last seven days according to the latest Public Health France figures. The number of hospitalizations due to Covid-19 has doubled in one month. Despite the rapid spread of the new omicron variant a few days before Christmas, the delta variant remains largely in the majority for the moment.

The vaccination pass could be applied as early as January. The executive wants to go fast. He wants the bill to transform the health pass into a vaccination pass, either “Definitively adopted and promulgated before the end of January so that it can enter into force immediately”LCI spokesperson Gabriel Attal said. The text will arrive at the National Assembly on January 10. Gabriel Attal believes that the vaccine pass will be similar to “A quasi-confinement” for non-vaccine.

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Europe is putting the dose. The European Commission announced on Sunday an agreement with the BioNtech and Pfizer groups to deliver 20 million additional doses of their anti-Covid vaccine to member states in the first half of 2022 in order to facilitate vaccination campaigns. The Brussels executive specified that it had also activated a “First option to order more than 200 million doses under the third contract with BioNTech-Pfizer”. “This order also covers vaccines suitable for the omicron variant, if these vaccines become available”, explained the commission. Deliveries should take place from the second quarter of 2022, she said.

An agreement has also been reached with the Moderna group for the delivery of additional doses during the first quarter of 2022, the statement added. “This will prove particularly useful for Member States with a short-term need for additional vaccine doses”, explained the Commission.

Israel barricades itself against omicron. The Israeli government this Sunday banned its citizens from traveling to several European countries, including France, placed on the red list in order to prevent the spread of the omicron variant of Covid-19. These restrictions on travel abroad, which already affected most African countries as well as Great Britain and Denmark, now also apply to Spain, Finland, France, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and also the United Arab Emirates. The United States could be added to it.

A first case of the omicron variant detected in Iran. Iranian Deputy Health Minister Kamal Heidari announced on television on Sunday that a first case of omicron has been detected in the country. “This is an Iranian, middle-aged, living in Tehran and who has just returned from the Emirates”, he said, adding that the man had been “Immediately placed in quarantine, as well as contact cases”. An emergency meeting in the presence of the Minister of Health took place to decide on specific measures to be implemented to prevent the spread of the variant, he said. With 130,000 deaths, Iran is particularly affected by the epidemic. The head of the Covid Committee on Sunday proposed the total closure of schools after this discovery.

Vaccine pass, child vaccination, back to school… Jean-Michel Blanquer takes stock. Invited this Sunday by BFM TV, the Minister of National Education addressed several points relating to the epidemic. The vaccine pass, first, which will replace the health pass in January, as announced by Jean Castex on Friday. “The goal is very clear, there is nothing hidden: we want all French people to be vaccinated, assured Blanquer. It is normal that we move the cursor towards more constraints. ”

Regarding a possible postponement of the start of the school year, the minister has, for the time being, ruled out the hypothesis. “School is not an adjustment variable, it is essential for our children, he justified. It’s the last thing to close. ” Regarding the vaccination of children, the Minister of National Education also wanted to reassure. “Parents can go in a reassured way towards this vaccine”, he said. His counterpart in Health, Olivier Véran, announced on Saturday that the vaccination of 5-11 year olds should start next Wednesday “if all goes well”.

The omicron variant at the Christmas table. One week before the end of the year holidays, the rise in contamination continues and raises the risk of an epidemic peak in January. “The virus does not know Santa Claus or New Year’s Eve, assures this Sunday the epidemiologist Mahmoud Zureik, in the JDD. The restrictions that were not adopted this week, such as the curfew wanted by the Scientific Council for the New Year or the extension of the school holidays, may be announced soon in the emergency, with more degraded sanitary conditions “. According to the scientist, the measures announced Friday evening by the Prime Minister are “Shy” and “Not likely to be able to bend the curve” contaminations.

Slight rebound in anti-pass demonstrations. Demonstrations against the health pass were organized Saturday in France for the 23rd consecutive weekend, mobilizing a little more with about 25,000 people in the streets of different cities, according to the authorities. The Interior Ministry recorded 131 actions throughout France and in Paris, according to the police headquarters, the demonstrators were 5,500, including 4,900 at the call of a far-right movement, the Patriots of Florian Philippot. Last week, more than 20,000 demonstrators, some resistant to vaccination, including about 4,200 in the French capital, marched, according to police, and 18,600 the week before, including 3,400 in Paris.

Germany restricts entry into its territory. German authorities announced on Saturday evening the United Kingdom’s classification in the category of countries hit by the Covid-19 pandemic most at risk, which will lead to many travel restrictions. This decision will take effect from “Sunday at midnight, said the RKI health watch authority, specifying that people arriving from Great Britain should undergo a mandatory two-week quarantine in Germany, including for people vaccinated or cured of Covid-19.

On Friday, Germany had already placed France and Denmark among the areas of contamination in “High risk”, or one level below Great Britain. Only unvaccinated travelers from these countries are forced into quarantine.