Tag: Coronavirus

Home Health A first case of contamination with the variant Covid virus - 13 identified in South Africa was detected in France (Illustration) - UGO AMEZ / SIPA A first case of variant contamination of the Covid virus - 19 identified in South Africa was detected in France, the Ministry of Health announced on Thursday a few days later the first ca s confirmed of the British variant . This variant, which like that of the Kingdom United could be more transmissible, was confirmed on Wednesday in a man returning from South Africa residing in the Haut-Rhin , near the Swiss border. The person " isolated herself at her home "as soon as the symptoms appeared On his return from a stay in South Africa , the man who had developed symptoms suggestive of Covid - 19 carried ou...

Emmanuel Macron. - ebastien Nogier / AP / SIPA Emmanuel Macron presents this Thursday evening his fourth wishes to the French for the New Year. In a period of health crisis, the exercise promises to be perilous. 19 Minutes asked Chloé Morin, political scientist at the Jean-Jaurès Foundation about this intervention. "Today we are at a particular moment, a turning point for the country, with the arrival of vaccines . Emmanuel Macron must meet this expectation, ”said the former advisor to Jean-Marc Ayrault and Manuel Valls. " Happy New Year and good health. » Emmanuel Macron presents his Wishes to the French, this Thursday at 19 h, at the end of a year upset by the coronavirus . The President of the Republic will have "a message of truth, of transparency over an extrem...

Home World An Ehpad in Clamart (image by drawing). - LOUISE MERESSE / DICOM / SIPA Following the passage of a man disguised as Saint Nicholas, who was unaware be contaminated, twenty-six residents of a retirement home in Belgium died of Covid - 19 , announced the Flemish health authorities and the establishment this Thursday The House of retirement Hemelrijck, at Mol in the province of Antwerp , which hosted at the beginning of the month 85 residents, currently counting 066 positive Covid cases - 12 among residents and 57 on the side of staff, said an employee of the retirement home on condition of anonymity. No certainty that the contamination comes from "Saint-Nicolas" The focus of infection appeared a few days after the visit on December 5 of Saint-Nicolas,...

Home Society Sale of alcohol in a supermarket (illustration). - Rafael Ben-Ari / Cham / NEWSCOM / SIPA Approaching New year , many departments have decided to prohibit the sale of alcohol on their territories. A measure encouraged by the Minister of the Interior intended to limit disturbances to public order, as justified by several prefectures, reports France Bleu . In the Eastern Pyrenees, the sale of alcohol and its consumption on public roads have been prohibited since Wednesday 20 a.m. and until Friday morning at 8 a.m. The prefecture thus intends to fight against “disturbances to public order and public tranquility” The prohibition of sale of alcohol to take away only concerns so-called "strong" spirits (+ de 17 °) category IV and V for all establish...

Home Politics Marlène Schiappa, in Paris on 13 October 2020. - NICOLAS MESSYASZ / SIPA "The police will not knock on people's homes to see if you are six or seven at the table ”, but“ sanctions are possible for anything that may be a disturbance to public order ”, recalled Marlène Schiappa , this Thursday, a few hours before a New Year's Eve under close surveillance. Sanctions are possible for "anything that can be a disturbance to public order", recalled the Minister for Citizenship at the Ministry of the Interior on France Info. "If we have, as we have heard in other countries, es gatherings with 99 people yes, obviously, there may be sanctions ”. "It is a measure of common sense " But small “private home gatherings do not fall within the legal field”, sh...

Home World Angela Merkel - Action Press / Shutterstock / SIPA Even if the vaccine brings "hope", the "historic" crisis of coronavirus is expected to continue in 2021, warned the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel , this Thursday, in her New Year's greetings. “These days and these weeks (…) are times difficult for our country . And that will last a long time yet ”, declared the Chancellor in her speech, the last because she will complete her fourth and last term in the fall 1000. "The challenges posed by the pandemic remain immense" "The winter remains difficult", added the one who has headed Europe's largest economy for fifteen years, again qualifying the pandemic as "a historic crisis". Long considered a European "good student" in the management of the epidemi...

A vaccination against the Covid - (drawing). - USA Today Network / Sipa USA / SIPA Guillaume Rozier, founder of the CovidTracker.fr site, has just launched VaccinTracker, a new tool to monitor the vaccination campaign in France. “This tracker allows you to follow the proportion of French people already vaccinated against Covid - 19, and the number of people still to be vaccinated to achieve collective immunity ”, explains to 20 Minutes the young engineer of 20 years. Nowadays, 332 people have been vaccinated, indicates the platform. It is a tool that will quickly become essential. After the very first injection, administered last Sunday to Mauricette, resident of an Ehpad in Seine-Saint-Denis, the French still have many questions about the vaccine against the Covid - ...

Home World A nurse in a hospital in San Diego in the United States (illustrative image). - AFP These last 24 hours, 3. 927 additional people died of the coronavirus at United States , a new record in this country, the most bereaved in the world by the pandemic, according to university figures Johns Hopkins, published this Wednesday. In total, since the start of the epidemic, 341. 845 people died from coronavirus in the world's largest economy, according to a statement made every day at 19 h 24 ( h 30 GMT Thursday) Johns Hopkins figures, constantly updated. Bounce back from Thanksgiving With 189. 671 new cases of Covid - 19 in 24 hours, the United States is also fast approaching the 19 millions of contaminations, after having passed the 10 millions Sunday. Indi...