{"id":40392,"date":"2021-12-26T15:20:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T11:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=40392"},"modified":"2021-12-26T15:20:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T11:50:21","slug":"france-reports-100000-covid-cases-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/40392\/france-reports-100000-covid-cases-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"France reports \u06f1\u06f0\u06f0,\u06f0\u06f0\u06f0 COVID cases for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s tally marked the third consecutive day that numbers have reached record highs, Al-Jazeera reported.<\/p>\n<p>They come ahead of a video-conference meeting Monday in which President Emmanuel Macron and key members of his government will discuss new COVID-19 safety measures.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are concerned about the effect of the rapid spread of the Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>Already on Friday, the health authority recommended adults receive a booster jab three months after their initial vaccination.<\/p>\n<p>Now the government is moving to make the health pass issued to the vaccinated valid only if people accept the booster jab.<\/p>\n<p>The pass is required for access to caf\u00e9s, restaurants and public spaces, as well as for international travel.<\/p>\n<p>Some regions have already enacted their own safety measures.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of last month, for example, officials in Savoie, a department in the southeast of France, reintroduced the compulsory wearing of masks, not just in indoor public spaces, but outdoors too \u2014 a move just adopted in neighbouring Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The latest figures mark a dramatic rise since the beginning of the month: on December 4, the numbers broke 50,000 for the first time before rising steadily.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the pandemic, France has recorded 122,546 deaths from the coronavirus. So far, 76.5 percent of the population is fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>ZZ\/PR<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday\u2019s tally marked the third consecutive day that numbers have reached record highs, Al-Jazeera reported. They come ahead of a video-conference meeting Monday in which President Emmanuel Macron and key members of his government will discuss new COVID-\u06f1\u06f9 safety measures. Officials are concerned about the effect of the rapid spread of the Omicron variant. Already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}