The essential
- The epidemic continues to lose ground in France. The incidence rate drops by 43% over one week.
- 28,632 patients with Covid-19 are hospitalized in France. 2,918 are in critical care this Saturday, against 2,970 the day before.
- Opponents of the vaccine pass demonstrated again everywhere in France on Saturday.
- From Monday, the health protocol in schools will go to level 2, freeing children and adults from the mask outdoors.
8:18 a.m. Caution is the mother of safety. The epidemiologist of the Institute of Global Health Antoine Flahault underlines the progressiveness of the government, which gives itself until mid-March to consider lifting the vaccine pass. “We must make the population benefit as quickly as possible from the calm that is looming, but let’s wait for it to settle in!” “, he declares to the Journal du Dimanche.
7:30 a.m. News from the investigation into the origin of Covid-19. A recent study from the Institut Pasteur suggests that Sars-Cov-2 jumped directly from bats to humans. Without excluding a link with the Chinese laboratory in Wuhan.
7:15 a.m. Relaxation in Ottawa. A police intervention was still underway in the early morning (French time) to dislodge the fifty trucks that have been blocking the Canadian capital for 23 days, to demand a lifting of health restrictions. However, “significant progress” has been made, according to the police.
7h00. Good morning and have a nice Sunday. Welcome to this direct related to the Covid-19 pandemic and its consequences.