Category: France
France coronavirus “Breton Variant” French Health Department statement
Variant de clade 20C ayant émergé en Bretagne
Un cluster d’infections par un variant de clade 20C (« variant 20C/H655Y »), a été détecté dans un hôpital des Côtes d’Armor, avec des cas survenus entre janvier et mars 2021. More...
Breton variant: 13 cases of the new coronavirus strain confirmed
Public Health France has indicated that the Breton variant is limited to “a town in Côtes-d’Armor and the distribution of the 20C/H655Y variant therefore seems to be currently limited to this geographical area”. More...
7,398 schoolchildren, college and high school students in Ile-de-France affected by the coronavirus last week
7,398 schoolchildren, college and high school students in Ile-de-France affected by the coronavirus last week. More...
France: 45,641 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours, more than 4,700 patients in intensive care
45,641 new cases of Covid-19 have been detected in France in the past 24 hours, according to figures released on Thursday. More...
Ninth case of Breton Variant of coronavirus found in France
“Professor Arnaud Fontanet, member of the scientific council, indicated Tuesday morning on on BFMTV that a ninth case of this Breton variant had been confirmed. More...
24-year-old medical student dies of thrombosis ten days after being vaccinated with AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine
In a press release on Tuesday March 23, the Nantes public prosecutor evokes “the discovery at his Nantes home of the lifeless body of a medical student“. More...
60% increase in coronavirus infections in French schools in one week
The number of Covid-19 contaminations explodes among the children: they were 15,484 infected on March 19, against 9,221 the previous week, an increase partly attributable to the increase in saliva tests, which reached 250,000 tests carried out on Friday evening. More...
Le Monde: coronavirus incidence rate in Ile-de-France is nearly 550 cases per 100,000 inhabitants
In the reports published Monday, March 22 by Public Health France, the most spectacular increase is undoubtedly that of contaminations. More...
France coronavirus Breton variant: “It worries us as it is more difficult to detect by nasopharyngeal swab and can therefore go unnoticed.”
Will the measures announced be enough to curb the epidemic in France? More...
Sharply rising coronavirus incidence rate in Côtes-d’Armor, Brittany, epicentre of new 20C variant
The coronavirus infection figures for the Covid-19 epidemic in Brittany this Friday show a sharply increasing incidence in the Côtes-d’Armor and Ille-et-Vilaine. More...