EPIDEMIC: Since March 1st, more than 33 million the number of PCR (32 million) and antigen (1.5 million) tests have been carried out in France Better to be safe than sorry. This is obviously the strategy chosen by many French people who were tested before Christmas. Some 2.35 million tests were carried out last week, an increase of more […]
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EPIDEMIC: Of the 30,780 coronavirus tests carried out in Le Havre, 350 were positive Nearly 31,000 tests were carried out between December 14 and 19 in Le Havre, or 11% of the population of the agglomeration. These tests were carried out during the “massive” Covid-19 screening operation, which cost 800,000 euros, the Normandy Regional Health Agency said on Tuesday. Out of the 30,780 tests […]
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BORDERS: Travellers will need to present a negative coronavirus Covid-19 test less than 72 hours before their departure across the Channel To block the road to the mutation of the Covid-19, travellers will have to present a negative test of fewer than 72 hours to cross the British border and return to French territory, the Prime Minister’s Office announced […]
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TRAVEL: A few days before Christmas, the possibility for the French settled in the United Kingdom to return to the national territory remains uncertain. France has suspended since Sunday midnight and for 48 hours all travel of people from the United Kingdom, after the appearance of a strain of the coronavirus considered very virulent. A “necessary” […]
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EPIDEMIC: The Director-General of Health, Jérôme Salomon, pointed to a “worrying development” of the coronavirus epidemic in France More than 18,000 new cases of coronavirus Covid-19 contamination have been confirmed in the past 24 hours and “the evolution of the epidemic is worrying” in France, said the Director-General of Health, Jérôme Salomon on Thursday. Among the newly infected, President Macron […]
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EPIDEMIC: The head of state, Emmanuel Macron has symptoms of the coronavirus and will isolate himself for seven days, the Elysee said Thursday Emmanuel Macron tested positive this Thursday for coronavirus Covid-19 and will isolate himself for seven days, announced the Elysee. After the diagnosis established by ” RT-PCR tests carried out as soon as the first symptoms appear”, the Head of […]
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VACCINE: Based in Nantes, the Franco-Austrian company, Valneva hopes to market its coronavirus vaccine at the end of 2021 Valneva will start clinical trials in humans for its coronavirus vaccine candidate. The tests will be carried out in the United Kingdom, whose government has secured the supply of 60 million doses. The Franco-Austrian biotech Valneva, specializing in […]
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TESTING: The widely-praised German model of the Angela Merkel regime to deal with the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic is now engulfed in a series of potentially devastating scandals The widely-praised German model of the Angela Merkel regime to deal with the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic is now engulfed in a series of potentially devastating scandals going to the very heart of the […]
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EPIDEMIC: More than 56,000 people have died in France since the start of the coronavirus pandemic France recorded 13,713 new cases of contamination by the coronavirus in twenty-four hours, well above the target of 5,000 cases set by the government to lift containment measures on December 15th, according to official data released on Tuesday. The positivity rate (percentage of positive cases […]
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PANDEMIC: While France is reconfiguring itself for at least four weeks, the question of the effectiveness of screening for the coronavirus still arises Emmanuel Macron himself has recognized that the “test, alert, protect” system put in place to stop the coronavirus Covid-19 epidemic is no longer effective. For epidemiologist Catherine Hill, the solution would be to […]
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