France reached 90,000 dead | The country affects the most …

France yesterday exceeded 90,000 coronavirus deaths and 4 million covid infections, establishing itself as the sixth country in the world with the most cases. The situation of hospitals in the Paris region, the most populous in the country, is deteriorating with an intensive care occupation of 95.7%. The government is trying to speed up the vaccination rate. France is already the worst case in Europe and recorded 228 deaths on Friday, which crossed the ninety thousand mark.

These figures also mark a rebound, which the authorities attribute to the English variant of the virus, which is much more contagious. In France and other EU countries, the English variant is already responsible for almost half of new cases. The situation in the capital region is such that the government plans to transfer hundreds of patients to other regions this weekend.

Another problem, according to the authorities, seems to be a certain abandonment of the rigor in the precautions, with which the Parisian police force announced that it would put four thousand police officers in the streets. Los agentes van a controlar que se usen más caras, que no haya reuniones de más de seis personas, que nadie circulates between las seis de la tarde y las seis de la mañana sin un permiso, y que no se venda alcohol en algunas calles de the city. The fines are 135 euros for individuals and much more for locals.

This rigor is due to the fact that if the contagion rate does not decrease, France will have to return to a total closure, as is already the case in Italy. This is why he is also seeking to speed up vaccination, which until now has been reserved for medical personnel, those over 75 and over 50 with underlying conditions. The latter is left to clinicians, who can give AstraZeneca to their patients. From this week, the French will also be able to be vaccinated in pharmacies.

But vaccination is still slow, and only four of the 67 million French people have received at least one dose, and only two million have received both. This explains why the government authorized three brands of vaccines and gave Janssen the go-ahead yesterday, hours after being approved by the European Union.

The vaccine has “an absolutely satisfactory performance,” said the president of the European Medicines Authority, Dominique Le Guludec, at a press conference. The US single-dose vaccine “can be used from 18 years of age” or even “in people 65 years of age and over.” This is the “fourth vaccine that completes the arsenal of French vaccines,” he said with reference to those from Pfizer / BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca / Oxford, all in two doses.