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France: 90,000 dead from coronavirus broken barrier

THE France exceeded the limit of 90,000 deaths from coronavirus, with the Paris region at the center of the epidemic, a fact that revives the scenarios for lockdown.

According to the French health service, 90,146 people have died from covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic in hospitals and nursing homes. This number does not include those who may have died at home.

With 20,000 to 30,000 new cases of coronavirus per day in the country, the epidemic is far from under control and the situation is considered particularly worrying in Ile-de-France. “We are monitoring the situation day by day so that we are ready at any time to take action, if necessary,” French Prime Minister Jean-Castex said yesterday after a visit to a Paris hospital.

On Thursday, French Health Minister Olivier Veran announced the imminent transfer of “tens or even hundreds of patients” from Ile-de-France to other areas in order to avoid the saturation of intensive care units in hospitals in the French capital.

“This weekend we will accelerate vaccination in Ile-de-France, as we did last weekend, with an additional 25,000 doses,” Castex pledged.

So far in France 4,819,924 people have received the first dose of the covid-19 vaccine and 2,219,277 in both doses.

Four vaccines

According to the Regional Health Service (ARS), 1,082 patients are being treated in intensive care units in Paris, France’s most populous area, with 365 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, at the national level. 220.

The government has so far tried to avoid a severe lockdown, like last spring, preferring to impose a curfew on weekends in some areas. In Paris and its suburbs there is a curfew from 18:00 to 06:00 for seven weeks, while restaurants, bars, cultural country and sports centers have been closed for four months.

Across France, the number of patients admitted to intensive care units exceeded 4,000 yesterday for the first time since the end of November.

Although this seems increasingly difficult, the French authorities are relying on the intensification of the vaccination campaign against covid-19, with the goal of having the first dose of the vaccine to 10 million people by mid-April.

France will soon have a fourth vaccine against covid-19, after yesterday the country’s regulatory authority announced that it has approved the single-dose vaccine of Johnson & Johnson against COVID-19, a day after its approval by the authorities of the European Union.

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