There is no trend of improvement in the new French crown epidemic, and the government has now ruled out a third total foot ban. However, from Sunday (January 10), eight other departments have advanced their daily curfew from 20:00 pm to 18:00 pm. The 15 provinces that previously imposed curfews were concentrated in the northeast and southeast. Sunday’s early implementation of curfew provinces including the central and southeastern, the southern city of Marseille is also among them. Marseille has started mass testing in residential areas of suspected cases after a cluster of infections with the mutated virus in the UK was discovered on the 8th. Eight of the 23 confirmed cases have now been found to belong to a variant virus from the UK.
On January 8, Marseille, the capital of the Bouches-du-Rhône province, announced the discovery of a cluster of new coronavirus infections. 5 expatriates who had returned from the UK were diagnosed and immediately tested 45 people they had contact with. 23 of the 45 people were diagnosed, 8 of whom were confirmed to be infected with the mutated virus found in the UK. The mayor of Marseille, Mayor Benoît Payan, held two press conferences on January 10 regarding the cluster of infections. He was very worried and said that he needed to work every second to conduct a mass test for the virus in a residential area. The residential area is small in number, with about 30 or so residents.
The city of Marseille has deployed more than 40 marine firefighters in hopes of containing the mutated virus from the UK with maximum force. Of the 23 people diagnosed so far, all but eight are still anxiously awaiting the results of whether others are also infected with the British variant of the virus. Both the mayor and the deputy mayor said we must respond immediately and quickly, and not test step by step as usual, but quickly and expeditiously. Immediately after the follow-up test, isolate carriers who have the British strain.
Mayor Payan also suggested that he stadium be converted into an emergency vaccination center. In addition, the French Ministry of health has approved the Modena vaccine; the health minister said that from next Monday, France will receive another 50,000 doses of Modena vaccine. Facing criticism from opposition parties and some doctors, Health Minister Villein said that the number of vaccinations will soon be raised to 100,000.
France insoumise (France insoumise) leader Mélangchon said on Jan. 10 that he was not willing to be an experimental mouse. He said he was not bent on resisting the vaccine, but had no confidence in the Pfizer vaccine developed by German and U.S. drug companies.
He also said: France is a big country, and she has not developed “any vaccine” so far, for which he is “angry”. French laboratory Sanofi and Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline 8 announced that its vaccine against the new crown will not be “available” until the end of 2021, because of the poor results of clinical trials.
January 10 curfew was moved up in the provinces of: Cher (le Cher), Allier (l’Allier), Cordor (la Côte-d’Or), Haut-Rhin (le Haut-Rhin), Bas-Rhin (le Bas-Rhin), Vaucluse (le Vaucluse), Haute-Provence Alps ( les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), and the Bouches-du-Rhône ( les Bouches-du-Rhône). The curfew will also be brought forward from 20:00 to 18:00 in the departments of Var and Drôme starting next Tuesday.
According to the epidemic data released by the French health authorities, France has added another 15944 confirmed cases of New Coronary Pneumonia and 151 new deaths. This is far from the promise of less than 5,000 confirmed cases per day that French President Macron hoped for late last year.
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