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The latest death toll in France is 340 deaths in hospital in 24 hours for 50,835 deaths in all.
The number of cases is 13,563 against 16,282 the day before.
Tomorrow, the alleviation of containment will enter a first phase with the reopening of almost all businesses.
Globally, the pandemic has killed at least 1,432,000 people.
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9:15 am.
Bars and restaurants will not reopen “necessarily at the same time”.
Agnès Pannier-Runacher specifies that the reopening of restaurants and bars will be from January 20 “depending on sanitary conditions”.
But they will "not necessarily" reopen at the same time because it is "not the same activity".
9 hours.
The vaccination can start "at the end of December, beginning of January".
Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Minister in charge of industry, explains on BFM that the vaccination campaign can begin in France in about a month.
"We will be ready at the end of December, the beginning of January".
The country is awaiting authorizations and vaccine doses.
Vaccines: Agnès Pannier-Runacher (Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Economy) ensures that "we will be ready at the end of December-beginning of January" pic.twitter.com/0VcDJM4Tfr
- BFMTV (@BFMTV) November 27, 2020
8:45 am.
In Germany, 180 billion more debts.
Germany will be in debt to the tune of 180 billion euros in 2021, due to the second wave of Covid-19, which pushed it to extend its restrictions until January.
The budget specifically provides for a total of 179.8 billion euros in new debt for 2021, and 498.6 billion euros in public spending.
Germany will thus borrow nearly 84 billion euros more than what the Ministry of Finance expected in September.
8:30 am.
French football loses 24 million euros.
The French Football Federation has suffered a loss of around 24 million euros since this summer due to the health crisis affecting its activities, according to its general manager, Florence Hardouin.
“I don't think it's going to increase because there is hope of having stadiums that will fill up in March,” she said.
In addition to the difficulties linked to the health context, an “other uncertainty” hovering around the new broadcaster of the French championship, the Mediapro group, in conflict with the Professional Football League over the payment of television rights.
More details in our article.
8:15 am.
India will produce more than 100 million doses of the Russian vaccine.
The Russian Sovereign Fund (RDIF) has reached an agreement with the Indian pharmaceutical group Hetero for the production of more than 100 million annual doses of the Russian vaccine against the coronavirus, Sputnik V. “Hetero, one of India's leading drug manufacturers generics, agreed to produce in India more than 100 million doses per year "of Sputnik V, according to the RDIF, which financed the development of the vaccine, adding that the production will have to start" at the beginning of 2021 ".
New Delhi (India), Wednesday.
In India, volunteers to educate the public about the pandemic wear particularly identifiable helmets.
AFP / Sajjad Hussain
7:55 am.
Decision day in Belgium.
The number of people hospitalized is decreasing in Belgium.
The number of contaminations is also falling.
It is in this context that a possible easing of restrictions must be decided on Friday.
Several representatives of the medical world are calling for them to be kept as they are.
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7.45 a.m.
A first case in Samoa.
The Samoa Islands are experiencing a first case of Covid-19 contamination.
The Guardian explains that he is a 70-year-old man returning from Australia, tested in his late forties.
It was part of a flight of 274 people to this Pacific state, so far spared by the pandemic.
In recent days, another passenger on the same flight had erroneously reported positive.
7:25 am.
Vincent, victim of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Vincent, 40, is one of the people who went to intensive care to survive Covid-19 and who suffered from an important sequel: post-traumatic syndrome.
In this article, the Parisian describes the journey of this man since March.
The syndrome he suffers from affects as many people in intensive care as after a natural disaster.
7:15 am.
Lower demand for biofuel for the first time in 20 years.
Demand for biofuels is declining for the first time in two decades this year, on the heels of a sharp fall in oil prices in recent months due to the pandemic.
The production of biofuels for transport in 2020 is expected to decline by 11.6% compared to the production of 2019, however qualified as a record, according to the annual report of the International Energy Agency (IEA) published at the beginning. for the month of November, a first in twenty years.
"The collapse in oil prices has had a very negative impact on biofuels," observes Olivier Lemesle, director of studies at the Xerfi cabinet.
Of all renewable energy sources, biofuels are the ones whose use has declined the most because of the health crisis.
7 hours.
An airport becomes a vaccination center.
Closed in early November, Tegel airport in Berlin, the German capital, is undergoing improvements to become a vaccination center against Covid-19 from mid-December.
Germany expects to have the vaccine in the first quarter of 2021 and is preparing for a large-scale operation to set up around sixty centers of the same type across the country, supplemented by mobile teams.
In the case of the old Berlin airport, 3,000 to 4,000 people could be vaccinated there every day.
6:55 am.
Compulsory test to enter Colombia.
Colombian justice orders the government to reinstate the obligation to present a negative test for Covid-19 for entry into the country.
This measure was withdrawn in early November, sparking criticism from the medical sector.
6:45 am.
Review of AstraZeneca vaccine.
The British government is asking the Medicines Health Regulatory Authority (MHRA) to review the vaccine against the new coronavirus developed by the British laboratory AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford for commercialization.
If the vaccine is approved, 4 million doses will be delivered to the UK by the end of the year, followed by another 40 million by the end of March 2021.
6:25 am.
The reasons for the hardening of German policy.
Germany has decided to extend the restrictive measures until the beginning of January.
However, the number of contaminations is stable there and the rate of reproduction of the virus remains higher there than in France.
Le Parisien explains the reasons which push the German authorities not to ease the restrictions in force in the article below.
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6:10 am.
Over a million cases in Germany.
Germany has crossed the threshold of one million people tested positive for Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic.
Considered one of the good European students of the management of the epidemic, but hit hard by the second wave, the country has 1,006,394 officially declared patients, or 22,806 more in 24 hours, and 15,586 deaths, or 426 more in a day, according to the Robert Koch health watch institute.
More details in our article.
6 hours.
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