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DIRECT. Coronavirus: Pfizer will soon submit an authorization request for its vaccine

2020-11-18T19:56:31.118Z


A new Defense Council is due to be held this Wednesday, while two million infections have been identified in France since the beginning


The essential

  • Bercy is revising growth down to 6% for 2021 and strengthening its solidarity fund.

  • In France, 437 deaths caused by the new coronavirus have been recorded in the past 24 hours.

    This brings the death toll since the start of the epidemic to 46,273.

  • Emmanuel Macron must intervene next week to present new measures.

  • According to Jean Castex, restrictive measures “will continue” after confinement.

  • More than 15 million cases of contamination have been detected in Europe.

  • Sweden is forced to review its model.

>> Follow the events of this Wednesday

7:15 a.m.

Eleven vaccine candidates in the final phase of human trials.

48 vaccine candidates are currently in human clinical trials.

But only eleven have entered phase 3 (with large-scale testing), the last before approval from the authorities, according to the World Health Organization.

7 hours.

Tokyo is preparing to raise the state of health alert to the maximum level.

Faced with the rise in new cases of coronavirus contamination in the Japanese capital, according to the Nikkei newspaper, the local government intends once again to ask businesses to reduce their opening hours.

The alert threshold was lowered from level 4 (the maximum) to level 3 on September 10 after a decrease in the number of new infections recorded daily.

6:45 am.

The 2021 budget voted in the Assembly.

Against a backdrop of re-containment and dizzying economic uncertainties, the National Assembly largely adopted at first reading the draft budget for 2021 and its recovery plan of 100 billion euros.

The text must now pass to the Senate until December 8 before final adoption at the end of December.

6:25 am.

Australia is reconfiguring.

Six days of containment in the state of South Australia and in the capital Adelaide have been announced in an attempt to contain the recent outbreak of coronavirus cases.

Schools, restaurants and factories are to close, and people across the state are required to stay in their homes.

This measure comes after the appearance of two new cases linked to an outbreak of coronavirus detected in a hotel in Adelaide, where people arriving from abroad were doing their quarantine.

“We hit hard and early.

Time is running out and we must act quickly and firmly.

We cannot wait to see how the situation will deteriorate, ”said Prime Minister Steven Marshall.

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6:15 am.

The balance sheet in Germany is increasing.

The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus contamination in Germany climbed to 833,307, or 17,561 more cases than the day before, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases.

The institute also reports 305 additional deaths, bringing the toll to 13,119 deaths since the start of the epidemic in the country.

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6:10 am.

Pfizer close to seeking marketing authorization for its vaccine in the United States.

The CEO of the American pharmaceutical group Pfizer has confirmed that an application for marketing authorization for its vaccine against Covid-19 will be filed very soon in the United States, which could allow the first vaccinations in December if all goes well.

According to the first results of the clinical trial conducted with 44,000 volunteers in several countries, Pfizer's vaccine is more than 90% effective in preventing Covid-19.

A second vaccine should be examined soon by the FDA: that of Moderna, which announced Monday an effectiveness of 94.5%.

6 hours.

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